There exists a small space somewhere between where you are, and where you want to be as a writer. That space could be found within your brains creativity central, the headquarters for your minds greatest ideas and innovations. Within this space lies an unruly part of your imagination, and sometimes that imagination likes to play tricks, and games such as hide and seek, to really test you.
It likes to watch as it bombards your brain with countless little ideas, and thoughts about what to write, and laughs in joy as it snatches those innovative little ideas before you have the chance to do anything with them. Another, more familiar name for this unruly bit of imagination, is writer's block.
Writer’s block is just as I described it, a trickster that will not let a writer produce any work, sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks, but most often than not, writer's block likes to stick around for much longer. It’s quite frightening if you think about it, one day your writing can be changing the world, inspiring everyone who reads it, and the next day, writer’s block can decide it wants to play a few games with your creativity.
As you sit there, with pen in hand, and notebook wide open, the ideas that have been scurrying in and out of your brain seem to not be able to make it onto the paper. Glancing around, you hope to find the slightest bit of inspiration from the environment that surrounds you; maybe you'll write about nature, or the color of the sky right before sunset. Yet, whatever it is you think you might want to write about will just end up being bounced back and fourth through your mind, courtesy of writer's block.
Sitting there, being confronted with a completely blank piece of paper that seems to have no hope of being filled, no hope of being the vehicle for your next creative endeavor, seems like an impossible situation to make it out of with all your sanity intact. It is crutial to not give up trying, to not shut your creativity completely off, for as quickly as writer's block sets in, it could disappear. Losing hope over your work will give the upper hand to writer's block, and you better believe it will take advantage of that. Do not give it the upper hand, do not let it take your temporary loss of ideas and turn it into a long-term struggle. Fight through the frustration. Fight through the need to give up. You are a writer, and will always be a writer, even if you feel like you are temporary stunned.
So, pick up that pen, and engage in a battle with writer's block, for it will NOT stop you from being the writer you aught to be.