Day by day he came in later and left earlier. Finally he disappeared. Some years later I met him in Regent's Park. He was working as a telephone operator. His case is not unusual.
People talk, for instance, of 'writer's block'.
Even great authors fear it. Nearly every good creative person I know has this awful feeling when first confronted by a problem that this time they won't be able to cope. I certainly do. Times without number I have smiled confidently at a client, promised I could handle the task - and gone away filled with despair, wondering if I was up to it. If you are not a writer or an art director, you may imagine that this feeling of panic is confined to 'uncreative' people like you.