Imagine this...
You are standing in front of a crowd of people looking for guidance, looking for answers, and you have ... nothing. Not a single word is written on your paper, and you are supposed to bring these people wisdom and help?
This is how it is to be an editor with writers block.
Charles Bukowski wrote in "The Last Night of the Earth Poems,"
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all.”
After reading this quote I decided this was true.
If you have read my article from a few weeks back, I became editor-in-chief of the Huntington section of the Odyssey. A dream come true. Normally, I have my articles ready to send out by Thursday before I edit everyone else's on Friday during the deadline. But this week was different. Tis week I was storyless. I tried looking up news stories and felt no real drive, then I read other articles of fellow writers and still had no spark. This is my wall.
So now I write this, a silly post about how I can't write anything and then I remember that I am not the only one who struggles with this.
Writers are meant to bring some unexplained source to a normal life. When one looks through their news feed on Facebook or Twitter, they are searching for some story to catch their eye, something to spark a conversation.
Writers want this too. We want our writing to spark our mind and heart. But sometimes we hit walls, and there just isn't anything that we feel true passion about. When this happens, it just plain out sucks. So when your writer friends or people you look to for works of word genius have writers block, give them a little break because it is hard to have a new story every week.
Sometimes life gets in the way or our minds get the best of us, but that only creates for bigger and better stories when they come. You may not always see a story in a headline or in a conversation right away, but let it sit in your mind for a day, a week, a month, and see if the good Lord doesn't knock you in the head with an amazing story