Bob Dylan wrote the soundtrack in 2000 for the movie Wonder Boys. Listen to the song on YouTube and watch the film with Michael Douglas. He stars as a professor, suffering from writer's block, tries to deal with the pressures of his complex love life and his troubled students' assorted problems. Despite the encouragement of one of his admiring female pupils, the professor is obsessed with his current work. He finds release in his friendship with a lonely but gifted student. This episode is about music and entertainment for gifted writers who need encouragement. Just because things have changed doesn't mean life should be filled with gloom and doom. Writing oftentimes helps people dig out of the mire of what's troubling them and brings clarity in order to take action. Action is the key, not procrastination.

Definition of the word mire: a situation or state of difficulty, distress, or embarrassment from which it is hard to extricate oneself.

"He has been left to squirm in a mire of new allegations". Source: Oxford Dictionary of Languages.

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