Reframe How You Think About Creative Blocks

'Creative block' is not a diagnosis. It is a symptom that can have several different causes, each of which requires a different response. Treating a fear-of-judgment block with a start-anything approach makes it worse. Understanding which type of block is actually happening changes what to do about it. This identifies the most likely type, challenges the usual diagnosis, and proposes a five-minute experiment to find out more without requiring a breakthrough.

I have been experiencing a creative block. I work in {CREATIVE_DISCIPLINE}. The block presents as: {BLOCK_DESCRIPTION}. It has been happening for approximately {DURATION}.

Help me reframe it:
1. What the block might actually be: the [three] most common types of creative block in your discipline, and which one my description most resembles (not being able to start, stopping partway, being unable to judge the work, fear of the finished thing being wrong)
2. What the block is usually not: why 'lack of inspiration' or 'not feeling creative' is almost never the accurate diagnosis, and what is more likely happening instead
3. A five-minute experiment: one specific thing to do in the next [five minutes] that would tell me more about which type of block this is without requiring me to break through it immediately
4. The useful reframe: a way of understanding this block that is more accurate than 'I am not creative right now' and that suggests a different course of action