I'm aware that I'm not the world's greatest writer, but we can all agree that writer's block can be the absolute worst. There are so many things to write about, but when it's time to actually write my mind goes blank. I can be staring at my laptop for a while and will only have one word on there. Why does this always happen? When will this madness stop? I already know the answer, but I'm still asking it to make it to make it somewhat interesting.
Not only do I never know what to write about, but I always find myself coming up with brilliant ideas at very unusual times. This seems to always happen when I'm at work for some reason. I come up with great topics and set the whole article in my head. And when I say the whole article, I’m talking about the introduction, the body paragraphs and conclusion. I might even throw some references and works cited somewhere in this brain of mine.
You know that episode in "SpongeBob SquarePants" where all the little SpongeBob's are working hard in that little head of his? Yeah, that’s how it is for me at first.
Then all hell breaks loose and there's fire everywhere? Yeah, that's me as well.
I can relate to both those gifs on a spiritual level. I'm sure every writer does actually. One minute is perfect then bam—you thought.
It all seems to be going great up until I realize I'm at work. How am I going to remember this genius topic that I can write about when I'm at work? I forget things that happened two seconds ago and I'm trying to engrave a whole paper into my brain so I can remember when I leave work in six hours? No, sir, I can't do that. As much as I tell myself, “Okay, Yessica, remember to write about this and that.” It just does not happen like that.
However, sometimes I get smart about that and take some receipt paper, write my idea down, and shove it right into my pocket. But I somehow tend to always lose that little piece of paper. I can be winning the "most shared article of the week" with that little paper but no, I have to go and lose it. So great, isn’t it?
Not only do I not know what to write about half of the time, but at times I have trouble in choosing which "style" to write in. I feel like there are two ways in which I could write. I don't even know if that makes any sense but I can write exactly how I think in my head or write professionally. Professionally as in a research paper type of article and in my head as in my true weird self.
Also, I think I'm a funny person so my thoughts include a lot of sarcasm and witty jokes that are sometimes inappropriate. Like this article right now. I'm literally writing what's in my head. Even if it doesn't make sense. Honestly, my life doesn't even make sense.
Let me just add that I'm not BS-ing this article; I just felt like I should loosen up a bit and write about not knowing what to write about exactly how it's going inside of this curly head of mine. Interesting, right?
I just wrote an article about not knowing what to write about and it worked out pretty fine. I could've gotten all deep and inspirational writing about trees but I didn't want it to go that way. Why? I have absolutely no idea.
