Overcoming Writer’s Block:
Bono, R.E.M. & The Doorway Effect

March 27th, 2023
Category: Uncategorized

Some of the best advice for overcoming writer’s block comes from U2’s Bono by way of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe. At least, I think that’s the case … though try as I might, I can’t locate any record of the interview.

Nor do I recall anything else said in the interview or even if I came across it in a video, audio, or magazine. But I do recall that at one point the conversation turned to songwriting, and it was then that Stipe related Bono’s remedy: remedy: “Leave the room,” Stipe said … [read more at The 21st-Century Scop].

<<< Bono at Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, 2017, photo by Daniel Hazard. Creative Commons.

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