It always happens around 10 'o clock when you're trying frantically to finish your term paper before the midnight deadline, when you have this story you want to write but always say "I'll get around to it," or when you realize you haven't written in your blog for months...
Yeah, I'm there with you.
Sometimes it feels like writer's block has got me wrapped around its little finger, like how a cat rubs up against its owner's leg. Actually, now that I think about it, writer's block is a lot like a cat, so I suppose you should deal with it in a similar fashion.
1. When writer's block takes long naps in the sun, lazing around limp in the middle of the living room floor, throw the thing outside. If it likes that little sunspot so much imagine what the great outdoors would do for it. It would go wild.
2. No matter how often you call on writer's block it will never budge, so you've got to just live your life as though the sprawled figure in your favorite chair is not there. Go out and live in the world and good ideas will come to you.
3. Ever noticed how when you watch TV all day and scratch writer's block behind the ear it purrrrrsss and cuddles up on your stomach. Yeah, that's a trap. Evil, evil trap. Now you can't move and you've wasted a whole day, and even worse, you have filled your creative mind with not-creative mush.
4. Sometimes writer's block goes berserk for no reason at all. It will just lash out with claws and screams and make you feel like a horrible human being. Don't worry, you are not. You are just a dog person.
I completely agree with you. Writers' block strikes just when you MUST write!
ReplyDeletebtw, I love your "About" section, you sound really creative :)
You said it. Writer's block is the ultimate bane of any literary person's existance. I want to take a huge feath quill pen, stab it repeatedly and use its blood for the ink to write words of inspiration that will come with it gone forever.
ReplyDeletePlus, being a dog-person, I'm a fan of the cat analogy. :)