[NicB]

Great post Michelle. Very interesting to see others' experience with it.

From my experience, for me, having writer's block vs not having writer's block has been dependent on where my focus is. If my focus is on "trying to make it good" or "trying to make it something" or "trying to make it this or that", then it never works out. It's because it makes me too analytical in the mind and it blocks things.

Instead, if i focus on allowing the creativity/inspiration/emotion/whatever to come to me, and just play/write, that's when the best pieces are done. Then you start to feel imaginative and you start to get "in the zone" and start to focus on the creative things, such as the energy flow of the piece and stuff like that.
(that's why FazK's post is a good one, because just STARTING a lot of writing without worrying about whether it's good or bad can help to shift your focus from analytical zone to creative zone)
So the conclusion i come to with writer's block is this: Write with your soul and not with your ego.