Author and psychotherapist Dennis Palumbo talks about procrastination, the dangerous myth of inspiration, and why writer’s block is good news in a presentation he made recently to a Sisters in Crime meeting in Los Angeles.
“Writer’s Block Is Good News and Other Surprises” is posted on YouTube.
Palumbo, a former keynote speaker at the Central Coast Writers Conference, was a Hollywood screenwriter (My Favorite Year, Welcome Back Kotter) and is the author of Writing from the Inside Out as well as an award-winning series of mystery thrillers featuring psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi.
His work helping writers has been profiled in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, and other publications, as well as on CNN, NPR and PBS.