"Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes. "
I remember taking writing classes in high school and having to write short stories as part of the course. While I didn't always relish the work of crafting 5,000-word tales on paper, I did manage to get plenty of good results, mostly by following a set of guidelines I found on a book that advised people about winning writing contests.
Well-known writers who have suffered from writer's block include George Gissing, Samuel Coleridge, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Mitchell and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Writers who overcame writer's block and published new work after a hiatus of decades include Harold Brodkey, whose novel The Runaway Soul appeared some 30 years after it was first projected, and Henry Roth, whose first novel, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934; his second, Mercy Of A Rude Stream, did not appear until 1994.