Ever heard of writer's block?It's every writer's dilemma. It's a condition wherein authors lose the ability to write and produce new ideas to work upon.
Common Causes of Writer's Block?
It could be due to stress, lack of inspiration, distractions and/or conflicted feelings.
Even non-professional writers experience writer's block. Some days, you are so much energized to write about a lot of things and then the next day, you just don't feel like writing about anything or your mind suddenly dries like an ink of a pen. It will usually go on for days, weeks or even months until you do something about it.
I've been there many times already and it's inevitable. At times like this, it's a struggle for me to finish a story and it's even harder to begin. There's a lot that has been going on in your mind but you just can't put them together because you're out of focus. Or you've started writing gracefully, and then suddenly, you don't know how to end it nicely. If you've experienced all this, then it's probably writer's block.
I've been slacking off for the past seven days. The culprit? It's probably due to work plus add up the stress I've encountered when I had skin allergy (due to the hot weather) which made me really uncomfortable. My allergy still haven't healed so I thought of working from home this whole week to help with the healing process. I've been wanting to post here but I just don't have the energy and the will to do so. It's easy to upload a single photo on steepshot and just wait for upvotes to come but I don't want to be unfair to my followers. I want to post something here only when I'm ready to interact again.
Even as I am typing this, I find it really hard to proceed with writing but I want to fight this
off and just go back to my normal writing routine. It's a matter of finding the burning desire to write that you once lost.
Possible Solutions to Vanquish Writer's Block
Break out from your usual routine and go on walks or vacations. You might be so used to the same everyday scenarious in your life that you lose inspiration to come up with new ideas to write. Relax your brain and see a new place. It doesn't need to be somewhere far away. Try walking outside of your streets, observe people and their activities and you might just come up with something. Always remember that the goal is to find something to write about.
Read a book and/or articles.
Bond with the people who makes you happy. Because when you're happy, your mind generates happy thoughts, therefore allowing you to start creative juices to flow.
Eliminate distractions.
Do freewriting. It doesn't matter whether your blog makes sense or not. Just write anything you can.
Sometimes, you just really need a good push to go back to writing. Once you find that lost inspiration, everything will be much easier. Keep the desire burning and always remember the reason why you first started writing.
This is me trying to convince myself to end this writer's block dilemma. My apologies for missing out friends. I missed all of you. ❤
Much love,
