As I sit in my dorm, watching the Detroit Tigers play the Toronto Blue Jays (the Cleveland Indians wouldn't play until 8 at night), icing my knee (got hit with a dodgeball on Friday), and work on an independent project for my Life Span Human Development class, I ponder about what I want to write for my next article. But the more I realize that I have written so many articles since June, the more I realize my mind is now limiting my thought process of what to write for an Odyssey article.

Not only that, but when I come up with an idea, I realize that there is already an article that has come out about that certain topic. The more I think, the more frustrating it is to get an article in before the deadline.

I have hit the writing slump.

Hitting the writing slump is like...getting stuck in a hole and trying to figure out how to get out. I could go into one of those things of how to get out of writing slumps, but when I was trying to search up a good metaphor for a writing slump the majority of the articles I found on Google were about how to get out of writing slumps.

Also, I'm not the best at giving advice about getting out of writing slumps. But off topic, my advice for writing is to write what you feel. Okay, back to the article.

I've been hit with the writing slump a couple of times during my time writing for Odyssey, but now is the worst that it has been in a while. It's hard to come up with articles when almost every article you see on Facebook is on the same topics (not every article. Many of my fellow Odyssey writers for Bowling Green State Universit have written some very unique articles), but lately it's hard to try and not to copy another's work. The same is with academic papers. Teachers assign papers of similar topics almost every year that when someone writes a completely original paper that it could be mistaken for another's work from a couple of years ago.

I could write an article about the annoyance about how teachers should also teach APA writing style since they all think MLA is used in college but for a majority it's not (like my Life Span Human Development paper), but there could be something already written about it out on the internet.

Or maybe...

Just maybe...

Well, back to the drawing board.

But even now, as I write about the annoyance of running out of ideas to write, I realize that this is an idea.

Wow.