Through out life we all have papers that need to be written, dreams of writing a novel on your life, or just simply a letter to grandma that mom is making you send. Whatever it is we have to write and sometimes it is just plain hard. There are infinite combinations of words but yet when it comes time to sit down and put those words down onto paper we become blank.

1. Denial

Like any phase denial is usually in there somewhere. When sitting down to write whatever you keep telling yourself “You got this!” over and over again. Something's got to come to mind right?

2. The Type and Erase

You start with a title, a header, or even a first sentence. You feel confident in that for a few seconds and then pound on the delete key multiple times. Usually whilst say “no no no”

3. The Blank Stare

Hands in your lap and eyes on the screen. You stay this way for possibly 15-30 minutes

4. The Shake It Off Phase

This is where you accept defeat in writing and decide to give your brain a break and distract it with something else. Typically food is involved here

5. The Really Distracted Phase

Unfortunately the TV was on...and now your an hour deep into a movie you’ve “always wanted to see” and totally forgotten about the writing

6. The OMG get back to work phase

You’re up and sprinting back to your computer. You are sitting up tall, knuckles cracked, and ready to begin. You begin to write as many words as possible without even knowing what they are.

7. The Really Out of Ideas Phase

You start to google search things such as “Ways to help writers block” and “What to write when you have no ideas” and “people to pay to write your paper”

8. The Light bulb

You finally have an idea, you are so inspired by it. It’ only fingers to keys now!

9. You Hate It

Erase erase erase

10. The End

You aren’t sure how but you have something written and submitted. Thank God