Comic Sans to the rescue - be gone writer’s block. I read a post on FB, from a writer, saying that she'd discovered a really helpful tip for anyone suffering from writer's block: change the font you usually write in, preferably to Comic Sans, and the problem will almost magically evaporate, as if that particular font has some kind of healing power for the suffering wordsmith. She wrote, quite lovingly, about the soft, rounded quality of the letters, and how this helped to stimulate creative thoughts. Quite frankly, I was sold. Also, as soon as she posted this revelation, other writer's who had discovered the same (or a similar) trick, weighed into the conversation saying that it actually didn't matter which font you chose, because the mere fact of switching up the font, almost always had the desired affect of shaking loose a stream of words/sentences/plot twists and other desirable weapons in the war against the blank page. Changing the colour of the font was a popular ...
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