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Only in a minor and trivial way, but dealt with.
I can't compose. I can take someone else's tune and transpose it, stick chords under it, maybe even write variations on it (the Vaurian Variant on "Brian Boru's March" being the best of those). But original composition? No. A blank staff stays blank.
Except... over in Renaissance Kingdoms, we were asked to produce an English National Anthem (for a fictional England in 1459). We'd posted links to various YouTube tunes, and modified the words a bit. Someone suggested actually writing something ourselves. Well, I know I can't do that... but then a little tune popped into my head, only four bars. It stuck. I looked for where I'd installed Noteworthy, discovered I hadn't and went and got it. Poked around a bit until I'd got notes on a staff that sounded like what I could hear in my head. By now another little tune had dropped in to join it, so a bit of copy/paste later, I had a complete AABA 8-line verse, and half the words to the four couplets. I opened up a new staff, put a few basic chords in there, played with the instrument settings till it would do as a demo of the tune, exported as MIDI, dropped it to the website, and called in a friend to help me out with the words. Perhaps an hour later, 5 verses of slightly satirical Anthem hit those forums.
Now admittedly, that was a very simple little tune: I was probably producing more complex stuff before I was ten. But the block is no longer a block.
I can't compose. I can take someone else's tune and transpose it, stick chords under it, maybe even write variations on it (the Vaurian Variant on "Brian Boru's March" being the best of those). But original composition? No. A blank staff stays blank.
Except... over in Renaissance Kingdoms, we were asked to produce an English National Anthem (for a fictional England in 1459). We'd posted links to various YouTube tunes, and modified the words a bit. Someone suggested actually writing something ourselves. Well, I know I can't do that... but then a little tune popped into my head, only four bars. It stuck. I looked for where I'd installed Noteworthy, discovered I hadn't and went and got it. Poked around a bit until I'd got notes on a staff that sounded like what I could hear in my head. By now another little tune had dropped in to join it, so a bit of copy/paste later, I had a complete AABA 8-line verse, and half the words to the four couplets. I opened up a new staff, put a few basic chords in there, played with the instrument settings till it would do as a demo of the tune, exported as MIDI, dropped it to the website, and called in a friend to help me out with the words. Perhaps an hour later, 5 verses of slightly satirical Anthem hit those forums.
Now admittedly, that was a very simple little tune: I was probably producing more complex stuff before I was ten. But the block is no longer a block.