An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.
Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.
The English inn stands permanently planted at the confluence of the roads of history, memory, and romance.
You can't be blocked if you just keep on writing words. Any words. People who get 'blocked' make the mistake of thinking they have to write good words.
Writing is an antisocial act.
writers just kept on staring at nothing until they wrote something. Might be two minutes or two weeks.