It's the plague of the publishers, the curse of the creative, the... the... it's got me so good right now, I can't even think of a third use of consonance! Writer's Block- or as I like to call it- creative constipation, because honestly what pain can't be eased with a poop joke? With my brain rolling around uselessly in my head, I will spare you of my less-than-eloquent words now and let the gifs do talking.
1. Trying to trigger the tiniest bit of thought by typing complete incoherence.
2. Realizing caffeine is no substitute for creativity.
3. Thinking no one cares about what you write so why are you killing yourself over it?
4. Praising yourself for a single word because, dang, that is the most beautiful word in existence right now.
5. Wondering if this is what Leo felt like every time he didn't win an Oscar (fear not, he's got his Oscar now and you will get into your writing swing).
6. Or how Heath Ledger felt when his princess kept jerking him around in a Knights Tale. (I mean seriously, this still bothers me)
7. STUPID. USELESS. BRAIN!
8. That feeling only Simon Cowell's face can express.
9. Thinking back to when you decided to become a writer...
10. No words can describe the utterly tearful sorrow you feel... but maybe Spidey can
11. Feeling the emptiness on the paper reflects an emptiness in our mind reflects an emptiness in our soul.
So, to my fellow writers experiencing this cruel mistress, you will survive this. This plague may have decimated the dreamers, the would-be-writers but it has yet to slow down the do-ers, the writers who write through the pain and agony and toil. J.K. Rowling did it. Ernest Hemingway, Robert Frost, David Foster Wallace most definitely went through this with his book, "Infinite Jest" (I mean, there's no way you can write over a thousand pages without encountering writer's block on at least 999 occasions). But you can do it. Just keep writing.
