Reimagining Unproductive Times

How John Cleese came to terms with unproductive writing days

An unproductive typewriter: © Simon Whaley

I’ve just finished reading Creativity by John Cleese. It’s a short book, but full of practical advice for writers. In particular, he said:

“When Graham Chapman and I started writing together we would get terribly frustrated and despairing when we hit a fallow period — sometimes a whole…