P. Diddy and the Writer's Block From Hell

Posted on February 16, 2005

We've heard of writer's block, but this is ridiculous. P. Diddy (no, it's not Puff Daddy or Sean Combs any more, try to keep up) is in big trouble with his publisher, Random House. Offered a book deal in 1998 (actually his name was still Puff Daddy back then, now that we think of it), P. got inquiring letters from his miserable editor year after year wondering how the writing was going. Apparently, it wasn't going well. Now, Random House has decided to sue P. for the $300,000 advance they gave him in 1998. And who can blame them? Of course, we are reminded of the similar incident involving Mick Jagger. Years later, he returned the huge advance he got for his memoirs saying that he just couldn't remember anything worth writing down. Which leads to the obvious solution for the celebrity who is plagued by writer's block: hire a ghost writer. There are lots of great ones out there who never get writer's block at all.