As I sat here staring at a blank screen for over an hour, I realized that writer’s block is a very real (and annoying) thing. Normally, writing comes easy for me. But I don’t know what it has been about the past couple weeks that I just cannot put pen to paper… or fingers to keyboard.
I, like many other writers I know, usually write about what hurts. It is a lot easier to write when there is something big happening in the world or something tragic happening in your life. And this writing is very useful. As for me, writing about something that is hurting or bothering me helps me get over it. I feel like having it written out in front of me makes me see it clearly. Sometimes, I don’t even know how to process what is going on in my mind until I write it out and read it back.
But other times, the good things in your life are worth writing about, but we forget. Which may not be a bad thing, honestly. Life is so good that you don’t need to see what’s going on in your life on paper because you’re way too busy having a good time. And that is a good feeling.
No matter what is happening in life, whether it be good or bad, it is all worth writing about. Writing about the bad things helps you get through things and helps others relate. Writing about good things makes you feel happy and makes others feel inspired. But sometimes it really just doesn’t want to come out of your mind. And you just sit there talking to yourself in your head but nothing shows up on the screen. Like why hasn’t someone invented a computer that reads your mind and types it up for you?
As cliché as this may be… this feeling is a lot like life. Sometimes, everything is good and things are handed to you on a silver platter… and you can just knock life out like it’s your job. Other times, it’s not that easy and you suffer to make things happen. You can’t seem to get anything right and when you do something you constantly feel like hitting delete and starting over again (if only this was a thing). It’s frustrating… life sucks sometimes. But we have to remember the good things that life gives us always.
Although writing can really be hard sometimes… we, as writers, need to remember just how talented we are. We have the power to put together 26 letters into millions of different combinations and create words that relate to people… that inspire people. And even if I can’t write about something that may inspire you, maybe I can write something that you relate to... Like how crappy it is when you can’t get the one thing you are usually confidently doing on the daily to work. Or that maybe I do inspire you… to make the blank page your facing into something… even if it is a bunch of words.
So even though I may have gotten a little deep, and this may not make much sense… I at least got an article out of it.
