<p>My d also had writer’s block. She threw out countless half-started essays that were trying to be too deep. I think she was putting too much pressure on herself. One day she was reading Peanuts, the comic strip, in the paper and an idea just popped into her head from reading it because Lucy the main character really makes her laugh. She wrote a clever essay, with a bit of humor, and it must have been okay because she was accepted at all of the colleges she applied to.</p>