ALT There's a beautiful letter that Schiller wrote to a young author who was having the trouble that's known as writer's block. This young writer had oh, so much to say, but he couldn't write. This is a normal situation. Schiller said simply, "Your problem is that you're bringing the critical factor into play before you have let the lyric factor work". Look what happens to us in our schools: we learn to criticise Milton and Shakespeare and Goethe and everybody else, and then the teacher says, "Now do some creative work". You sit down and this bit of spilth begins coming out and you think, Oh, my God! That's nothing. Of course you can't write like Shakespeare, but you can write like you, perhaps, if you let yourself go. — Joseph Campbell, Goddesses