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Deidre, yeah, that's gotten to be my case now too. I used to have ideas exploding in my mind all the time. So many in fact that I had trouble getting them down fast enough. or in a coherent way. Now I have to go through a ritual of "checking in" to the world before I start my writing and blocking out all external distractions before I start writing. I remember a famous author once said that something like this would happen, and they were totally write. I don't remember their exact quote but it was something along the lines of "When you begin, the ideas and words will gush from you like a spring of water. But as you mature and the more you write, the longer and more in depthly you will have to live in the world before you can write about it."
I've somewhat reached that stage where I have to live in a world for a while before I can write anything about it. I think it involves how you "see" your world. I'm also fairly certain that writers block is simply failure by the writer to fully see their world. It's like writing about your family. The better you know them the better you're able to write about them.
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