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6MINED ENGLISH From bbclearningenglish.com Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Alice.
And I'm Neil.
Have you ever written any poetry, Alice?
No, have you?
Oh yes, I've got a sheaf of poems from my youth.
A sheaf of something means a bundle of things, particularly paper.
What about now?
Are you still writing?
No, my creative juices have dried up.
Oh, what a shame.
I would have loved to hear some of your poems.
Creative juices means a flow of ideas, and the subject of today's show is creativity and writer's block, which means not being able to write because of a psychological problem.
So not like tennis elbow or golfers knee then?
No, Neil, because a psychological problem refers to the mind, not the body.
And whilst some people view writer's block as nonsense,
others believe it is a serious psychological condition that can get better with treatment.
Well, I have a question for you, Alice.
How does author of the da Vinci Code, Dan Brown,