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writ out

Alaska98

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Slovenian
What does writ out mean in this context? He feels like he has written everything?

He’d been trying to do some more songwriting, still chasing one more special song, but he hadn’t liked many
of the results. I was sort of out of ideas and all writ out.
I would say that "writ" is dialect for the past tense of "write", that is "writ" = "wrote".
You haven’t actually given the context. Presumably both of these people are songwriters.

“Writ out” is not standard English, but the meaning is clear. To be all [verb]-ed out is a common construction, indicating that you’ve had more than enough of a certain activity and just can’t do it any more, at least for the time being.

Here, of course, he’s all “written out” (but he can’t say that because it means something else!).
Thanks a lot to all of you. This is from Robbie Williams book Reveal which I'm translating into Slovene. I will come up soon with more questions.
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