The Gift Of Writer’s Block

Anyone who writes knows this scenario at one time or another: You have something to say, great ideas to express. So, you go to the page only to find your mind has gone as blank as the sheet or screen before you. Paralyzed, you write not a word. Somewhere in the synapses of your imagination, you know there lives a fully formed novel, or story, or play, or even one single poem, but you cannot magnify it enough to see the individual words. So you leave it for another dayuntil your vision is clearer, until inspiration strikes and reveals all 350 pages of text, all 36 lines of poetry. Until the writers block is gone.

Sometimes inspiration does strike from out of the blue, and words pour down like rain. Ideas synthesize, fingers fly and Voila! Youve created a masterpieceor at least a pretty good piece of work.

But such strikes of inspiration are not, for most of us, the norm. Writing takes commitment, and good writing takes practice.

Still, what about writers block?

Even when your diligent with your practice, even when you show up day after day, youre not immune from block, from finding yourself without two words that make any sense. What then? ...