writer's block

1. 1.

   an inability to write

   “he had writer's block; the words wouldn't come”

   Broaderblock

Questions about writer's block

What does writer's block mean?

writer's block means "an inability to write".

Is writer's block a common word?

writer's block is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.