Sometimes in older movies where one of the characters is a writer there is a scene where you see the writer at his desk, suddenly ripping a nearly blank page from the typewriter or a notepad in front of him, crumpling the paper forcefully, then madly tossing it at a trash can heaped with similar crumpled balls of paper. Ah, another victim of writer’s block. When writing an appeal brief and trying to weave together a compelling story of the facts and the law that a judge will find to be a “page turner” (see my March 27 post on “pacing’), a lawyer is not that far removed from a novelist or non-fiction author. In the past, all writers dealt with the problem of…