ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests how knowledge of writers’ personality type can help writers' overcome writing anxiety or writer's blocks. Writing anxiety is a general stress—or distress—reaction to writing that leads to an avoidance of writing in general or to some specific type of writing. Writers usually feel less anxiety about writing when they write in their own natural way. In fact, the authors have found that writers can often end paralyzing attacks of writing anxiety by learning to write in a way that is more suited to their personality. Introverts can overcome this block by writing more like Extra-verts. They can try freewriting a rough draft by throwing any and every idea that pops into their heads onto a sheet of paper. One of the greatest strengths of Intuitive types is their originality, and it can also be their greatest failing. They sometimes become blocked because they cannot think of a unique approach.
