Nashville-Based Music Duo ‘Writ3rs Block’ on Music, Instinct and Community
How Zoe and Blane turn instinct, emotion and connection into songs that bring people together.
There’s an ease to how Writ3rs Block talk about what they do that makes the work feel lived-in before you even press play.
The Nashville-based pair—Zoe and Blane, married and musically intertwined—describe their creative lives in a way that sidesteps polish in favor of something more instinctual and porous.
The process, as they tell it, is less about construction and more about allowing. It’s a method that privileges instinct without abandoning care, guided by the idea that expression lands hardest when it isn’t overworked into submission.
Their origin story carries that same sense of inevitability. The duo told Hyvemind it unfolded within Mr. Wattson’s Chocolate Shop, an immersive art installation where performance, space and audience intertwined. The environment encouraged interaction, creativity and unexpected connections, and it was here that the bond between Zoe and Blane crystallized.
Today, through their traveling concert series, Recess, Writ3rs Block have been building temporary gathering spaces in backyards and green patches across the country, inviting strangers into a shared environment shaped by music, nature and presence.
We sat down with Writ3rs Block to hear more how instinct, emotion and community shape their music, and to get a closer look at the moments and ideas that keep their creative world turning.
Hyvemind: Hey Writ3rs Block! Introduce yourself. Who are you, individually and together?!
Writ3rs Block: Hi, we are Blane and Zoe AKA Writ3rs Block, a married duo currently based in Nashville, TN.
Blane: Zoe is an ethereal creative, with an affinity to the natural world. She's the type of person that bees and butterflies come to greet... and she greets them back. Her delicacy and innate strength are apparent in her writing and vocals. She is an imaginative being with a big heart.
Zoe: Blane is a wildly charismatic creative who has always valued collaboration and determination in his music making journey. Despite his detractors in his early life. He decided very firmly that music was something he not only wanted but NEEDED to pursue and he hasn’t stopped since.
HM: What inspired you to start making music together?
WB: We were both inspired by each other's creativity and dedication to the craft, but it took a synchronistic evening at Mr. Wattson’s Chocolate Shop to bring us together as a creative duo. Mr. Wattson produced and encouraged the creative connection that is now Writ3rs Block.
HM: Where do you draw creative inspiration from?
WB: We believe that every moment is an opportunity for inspiration. It may sound cheesy but it’s true.
“Writer’s block” as a concept is something we feel is just pointing you to try something new that excites you. That’s where we find our creative inspiration.
We also get our sense of purpose from the people we are connected to.
Community is everything to us.
HM: What’s your process for writing lyrics?
Blane: Well, it’s hard to say because it kinda feels like it’s just happening all the time. My best ideas come in the shower or the studio. So one day, I will have a shower studio.
I think ultimately I lean into the emotion that I am feeling or that the production of a song is prompting within me.
It’s all about the feeling at first, connecting with that, and then allowing the first words that feel associated with that emotion to manifest.
I think it’s more about getting out of the way of it, then it is about thinking.
Zoe: For me, the writing process is usually closing my eyes, listening to the music and trying to clear my mind completely.
I then allow whatever comes out of me to hit the page no matter how nonsensical it may seem to my conscious mind.
Once I feel like I’ve gotten it all out, I go back through what I’ve written and edit it to fit the song and be more cohesive.
Writ3rs Block Live at Cannery Hall
HM: What does cultivating a meaningful community mean to you? How does your music play a role?
WB: At the root of it all, for us, it’s about creating spaces where people from different walks of life can come together and see and re-discover our shared humanity.
Everything is so polarizing these days. It separates us, causes anger, loneliness and ultimately strips us of the day-to-day purpose we find when we have community.
Our music has enabled us to create community through our traveling outdoor free concert series. We pull up to beautiful places in nature and play music for free. You get to meet all kinds of incredible people doing stuff like that.
HM: What feels important to you right now, as artists and as community members?
WB: It feels important to create music that is honest and vulnerable when it needs to be, and fun and free when it calls for it.
We are all just trying to make sense of this human experience and we want people who listen to our music to know that their complex and isolating feelings don’t exist in a vacuum.
Just as much as we want to be heard, we want our audience to know they are heard as well.
HM: What’s next for Writ3rs Block? (dreams or plans!)
WB: Writ3rs Block is gearing up to bring our free outdoor concert series “Recess” to more green spaces and back yards across America. So if that sounds like something you, reader, want to get involved in, let us know!
We are also gearing up to release a lot more music.
We’ve been working our butts off to cut a lot of records over the past year and we are excited to share them with the world.
