1) A period of time when
a writer's mind is completely blank and drained of any kind of inspirational essence. They are unable to write. They start to bang their head against the basement wall. It bleeds. They scream and shout in agony. And finally, they pray that the pain from this blunt physical trauma and the sight of the sweet sweet catalytic blood finally gives them SOME kind of weak-ass idea.
2) Something that I never seem to have really. Hence why the above scenario was purely speculation on my part. I can't help but imagine however, that is somewhat similar to
Dante's second level of hell.
Hey man, I have writer's block. Any advice?
"How about
slitting your throat?"
"Okay, cool. Thanks!" *
slits throat*
"uhh.. whoops. I kinda meant that as in writing a poem or
short story or something about slitting your throat. Or maybe an essay about suicide. My bad."