10 years ago
Writer's block - when one cannot write at all.
The brain works in strange ways. Language is the avenue with which to communicate. So, if you have something to say, you will be able to spit it out when the urge is strong enough. The question is just to make sure to be understood.
So, when that departed member clothed her words in French instead of English in a English-speaking group, she did not really want to communicate and reach anybody. It was a social armour, possibly out of timidity.
I had no Writer's block whatsoever to recently post a negative review about "Black Afgano" over on the German site. My writing was fueled by first the personal sniffing impression of that creation and second by the behavior of the company NASOMATTO when they did not appear at a trade show and instead left a pooping dog display and the words, "We will be back", in total disrespect to the potential buyers who had taken the trouble to come to the trade show from far and wide. So that memory of that incident influenced what I would write, although the nose could not detect anything good about the scent either, to write a positive review.
I had no Writer's block, I wanted to make the (German) review stick as something not worth writing about.
So, passion fuels the perfume reviews, or not. Like now, my words are elaborate in the defense of the review over there, which elicited many comments. So, in a way, it was a good exchange after all.