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Ah, writers block. We’ve all had it, at some point in our lives, or been it in. Some more than others.

Ever stared at your computer screen for hours thinking of what to write? (Or I suppose the appropriate term “would be what to type?”) Banging down on your keyboard so “kd5ry86tvbg4n” turns up? Scraping idea after idea, feeling as though none of it is goodenough? I know I have and as of today I was  in a writer’s block. For you see, when Mr. Dael asked our class to get on this site and post something up, I thought it would be easy. I thought I would just click “New Post” and be off with it, writing whatever comes it mind. I thought it would just flow out of me, whatever it was. But I was wrong. I spend a lot of time thinking of what I could post up here. Maybe old writings and stories? Past assignments? Book recommendations? None of it seemed to work out. So I settled for talking about writer’s block, just to be ironic.

I wonder how many of my peers are confused at what writer’s block is. Well here is an explanation from our MUCH too used and polluted website, Wikipedia.

“Writer’s block is a condition, primarily associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task at hand. At the other extreme, some “blocked” writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers. It can manifest as the affected writer viewing their work as inferior or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite.”

Okay, first of all I have two issues  –two major ones anyway – with this definition. The first is that they made it sound like an illness. Now I’m no doctor but writer’s block does not seem like one. Perhaps it is the term ‘condition’ that unnerves me or the style in which they defined it. Sounded like a therapist with too much free
time, and a dictionary, to me.

Second, the word “profession”. It’s so false that it is almost laughable. Who says one must write as a
profession in order to have writer’s block? Why can’t us, students, have writer’s block? Yes, ours may be the so called ‘trivial intensity’ but so what? It is still writer’s block and we are all human. We can’t expect the human mind to be indestructible and we must accept when we are in a bit of a block. Not stress, fuss, panic and cry over it. Okay, so you let your English Essay till Sunday night and suddenly you get writer’s block and end up deleting upon deleting upon back spacing over and over again and you’re freaking out. But let old Ezgi give you some words of wisdom. First of all, you’re very stupid for leaving your English Essay to the last day, I’m just saying!

No, I’m just kidding. But as for the advice? Check out the links at the bottom. I thought some of the tips were quite clever and some rather stupid and some very funny. (For example one of the tips was to talk to a monkey or a stuffed animal about your problem.)

So if you have some free time all three have some good stuff that is worth the read. (Especially Webook where they actually give you bits of
writing to give you inspiration)

I hope you got something out of this piece of writing. Thanks.

Webook

43 Folders (Made me laugh a lot! But you might want to look past some inappropriate language.)

Writing Road Blocks