Every person has experienced the most annoying and frustrating thing in the world: writer's block. It does not matter if it is a paragraph for a lab, a blog post, or a ten-page paper; every type of writer's block is ungodly frustrating.
What does everyone do when they have writer's block?
Well, it is obvious what they don't do: write. Staring at the screen for hours and hours without an idea entering the mind is just the beginning. You reach for your phone, check all the social media platforms as you kill time waiting for something to hit you in the face. Once you have scrolled through Facebook and ended up on your friend's brother's girlfriend's friend, your mind finally comes back to reality with no idea to be found.
Opening a new tab on Google comes next as you proceed to search random things and one of those searches might be, "Topic ideas for the Odyssey" or "How do I start an essay," but most likely all of your searches are in the same category as "Kittens playing with pandas."
Maybe one of your searches even takes you to the price of a year pass for Walt Disney World!
Finally, you end up back on your original assignment. You look at the time and realize three hours have passed and the only thing on the page is MAYBE your name. Feeling defeated and still stumped, you proceed to take a nap because naps make everything better. If you get a bad score on a test, a nap can help. If it was a rainy day and you get locked out of your dorm, napping can save the day! If the words are not flowing, a nap can certainly get the brain going.
Sometimes an idea can even come to you as a dream!
However, there were no dreams during this nap and the writer's block continues. Getting out of bed is a struggle when the block has not been lifted by the nap, so you lay there convincing yourself that you will get up in five minutes. You proceed to argue with yourself that if you get up now, you will only have to come back in a few hours so there really isn't a point in getting out of bed.
Eventually, you persuade yourself that you have free time and what better way is there to kill free time than to watch Netflix.
After a couple episodes of F.r.i.e.n.d.s., you realize you missed dinner, but you have finally forgotten about your original problem: being unable to write anything.
Success at last!
As midnight rolls around and you start to snuggle up under the covers with your favorite stuffed animal (most likely a giant stuffed Mickey) your eyes dart open, your heart starts racing and you remember that you never finished your assignment. Literally screwed now, you write anything down. Word after word forms sentence after sentence and finally the paper is complete!
Getting back into bed several hours later, you convince yourself that you spent all day working on this one assignment. You tell yourself that you put a ton of work into it and curse your professor for making you stay up late, but the process always happens again in a few days.
