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What makes a writer go "I want to pull my hair out"

How's everyone doing today?

We are back, after over a year of no pessimism. Life has been, well, weird and all of this has led me to figure out some very interesting things about how we, as a society, look at things. This is going to be a fairly short post, talking about one of the scariest things for a writer and the reason behind the almost year-long hiatus for this blog.

Let’s talk about writer’s block, shall we? 

Have you ever started a writing project with insane amounts of enthusiasm, only to give up somewhere around the middle? You’re putting words down on the paper, building up your story from the ground; and trying to focus on what the best direction would be for your story. Everything is going well. You’ve made decent progress in the last week or so, and you are nearing the climax. You sit down at your desk one day and crack your knuckles before you want to type, but as you reach for the keyboard, your mind goes poof.

You don’t know what to write. You have an idea, or better, you have tons of ideas, but you don’t know how to translate them from your brain to what you want to write. And your current project looks alien to you. You don’t know what to write. No matter how much you push yourself, no matter how much you look at creative YouTube videos and blogs, you cannot seem to figure out why your creative brain is dead. 

In a situation like this, the best thing to do is take a break, so you take a break. You remove yourself from your desk and focus on other things you like doing. Perhaps you take a walk or do a little of gaming. And then you come back with newfound enthusiasm and reach for your keyboard.

But you still cannot think of what to put down on the paper. 

That, ladies and gentlemen, is writer’s block. 

A painful phase of a writer’s life where they are essentially braindead, and no matter how hard they try, they can’t seem to get their story out in the right way. And this translates to other creative fields too, where you often have a dry spell where you create nothing.

And even though it is dreadful, not being able to create even though you want to, there’s no proper way of solving it either. 

I suffered through it for almost a year, and finally, I found a solution: Write about writer’s block.

All you need to do is break the cruse really because once you do, your creativity will take over for you.

There're tons of helpful material out there, outlining how to overcome writer’s block, and so, to any of my fellow writers who are reading this and experiencing something similar, stick through it.

Trust me, writing is the best thing ever, even if it makes you want to pull your hair out right now.

Good luck fellow citizens of the internet.

I'll be posting more frequently (I promise), so follow the blog if you'd like some juicy pieces of pessimism to light up your day.

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