A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.

A writer wakes up every day hoping each day would be the day he finally manages to write, though each day he finds new reasons to delay his writing.

When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.

A man experiencing writers' block finds inspiration on a spontaneous trip to the home of near-strangers.

In a realistic sci-fi world, a mystery writer nurtures his robot servant's interest in becoming a writer as well, paying for a series of expensive upgrades such that the robot can understand spelling, grammar, plot, human behavior, and humor. However, when the robot's talent threatens to surpass his own, the egotistical writer demands the robot's mind be restored to its original state.

An accomplished but ineffectual columnist searches for fulfillment, until a death in the family causes him to question the family he took for granted.

In a post-apocalyptic Vermont of the near-future, a former writer picks up her old craft once more in an attempt to document the before and after of her resource-starved, disease-plagued world.