Imagine you’re driving. The road is curvy and runs over hills. It’s fun. Your stomach drops at one of the hills. Cows and horses are in the fields by the road, enhancing your driving experience. Suddenly, there’s a wall that rises from the ground and you have to pull the breaks.
Writer’s block is a bitch.
Everyone takes breaks from writing, that’s normal, but writing block only occurs when you’re in the mood to write or when you need to write. It’s inconvenient, it’s painful, it’s worse than being sick on Halloween (the greatest holiday).
Some people like to say that writer’s block is laziness. You’re just lazy and not writing. It would be much easier to write if you were inspired or not drawing a blank it’s almost like you have writer’s block. Maybe if you just sat down and forced out a few hundred words you’d feel better.
In a way, those idiots are right. You have to make yourself do something. When I’m having writer’s block in my novel I move to writing for my blog (so many posts lately, guess what I have?) or I move to writing nonfiction short stories. Sometimes I read. Reading often inspires you to write, the two go hand in hand. Occasionally I do force out words, though that’s a last resort for me or for deadlines.
When you’re on that road and that wall appears before you, you have so many options. You can move around it by taking a detour down another path, you can gun it and smash the wall to a million pieces, or maybe you can stop and enjoy the scenery for a bit.
Whether it’s writing something different, forcing out the words, or taking a break and reading a book, you can fight writer’s block. Knock it out of your world.
–Em
—Leave a comment down below about your writer’s block and we can wallow in misery together.
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