Writers Block: My experience

I certainly wish I had the drive to just reach for a pen and some paper and jot down my ideas when they present themselves. Sometimes they are inspired by something I heard, something I saw, something I said and even something from my thoughts. I get excited but that never translated into my going to get pen and paper to write it down and then it’s all lost.

Writers Block is a pretty common occurrence among writers of all levels. People experience writers block for varying reasons. Some writers experience anxiety when they have a new writing project to start and when they have to come up with new topics. Sometimes a good topic or subject just seems elusive and that can be very frustrating especially if there is a deadline to meet.

I have heard it said that there is no such thing as a writer’s block but I really beg to differ. I think my writers block comes in the form of "go get your pen and paper and jot your ideas down." I really have a problem in that avenue and that is what I consider to be my main writers block. Sometimes I get so excited about an idea that comes to me and I think seriously of writing it down that’s where the mobilization often ends. That’s just sad.

I am a deep thinker. As it with deep thinkers they get some really inspirational thoughts. I have lost a myriad of thoughts to my writers block. I tend to tell myself that the idea was so good there is no way that I could forget it. Big mistake. Ever heard of the saying that the shortest pencil is better than the longest memory or something like that? That is indisputable true. I end up so often literally taking my brain down bit by bit with a mental hammer trying to find exactly where the great thought had gone to hide only to come away empty handed.

It is true that the best thing to do is to jot down ideas when they come. For me that can be so complex and inconvenient. Why? When I move the moment is lost and sometimes so is the trend of thought. That magical moment gets broken and even if I remember it it is just not the way it was when I initially had the thought. I get annoyed at that. So instead of getting up to get some material to jot down the idea I prefer to sit and complete the trend of thought. 

There are other times when the ideas are inspired by something i saw or heard while I was out in the town or elsewhere. Naturally by the time I get home its lost or in shards. Maybe a figment of what I wanted to take note of still remains within the crevices of my mind but I always note that they are hardly ever as good as the initial though. Again I get frustrated and just cant bother using what appears to be mediocre.

Like an artist who uses his spoiled piece of art work to create an alternative piece I sometimes start working with what I now consider a mediocre bit of memory and create an even better piece of writing but most times this is not the case. Sometimes the piece is so way off that I drop it all together.

I cant figure out a way to get over my writer's block so I just work with it.