Editing Writer's block (section)

===Writer anxiety and inhibition===
Another cause of writer's block has been due to writer's anxiety. Writer's anxiety is defined as being worried about one's words or thought, thus experiencing writer's block.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/psychology-of-creative-writing/FF64818A31E9EA809C8607DB1F1290B4|title=The Psychology of Creative Writing edited by Scott Barry Kaufman|year=2009|publisher=Cambridge Core|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511627101|isbn=978-0511627101|access-date=2019-10-28|editor1-last=Kaufman|editor1-first=Scott Barry|editor2-first=James C|editor2-last=Kaufman}}</ref>

From a composition perspective, Lawrence Oliver said in his article "Helping Students Overcome Writer's Block": "Students receive little or no advice on how to generate ideas or explore their thoughts, and they usually must proceed through the writing process without guidance or corrective feedback from the teacher, who withholds comments and criticism until grading the final product."<ref name=Oliver>{{cite journal |last=Oliver Jr. |first=Lawrence J. |title=Helping Students Overcome Writer's Block |journal=Journal of Reading |volume=26 |issue=2 |date=1982 |pages=162–168 |jstor=40029248}}{{verify source|date=July 2022}}</ref> He said that students "learn to write by writing", and often they are insecure or paralyzed by rules.<ref name=Oliver />

Phyllis Koestenbaum wrote in her article "The Secret Climate the Year I Stopped Writing" about her trepidation toward writing, claiming it was tied directly to her instructor's response.<ref name=Koestenbaum>{{cite journal |last=Koestenbaum |first=Phyllis |title=The Secret Climate the Year I Stopped Writing |journal=[[The Massachusetts Review]] |volume=48 |issue=2 |date=Summer 2007 |pages=278–308 |jstor=25091203}}</ref> She said, "I needed to write to feel, but without feeling I couldn't write."<ref name=Koestenbaum /> In contrast to Koestenbaum's experience, Nancy Sommers stated that papers do not end when students finish writing and that neither should instructors' comments.<ref name=Sommers>{{cite book |last=Somers |first=Nancy |chapter=Across the Drafts |title=Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing |edition=2nd |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |date=2012 |isbn=9780415885164 |oclc=703871383}}{{Page needed|date=March 2023}}</ref> She urges a "partnership" between writers and instructors so that responses become a conversation.<ref name=Sommers />