My Writers Block

This is actually my second blog. The first one lasted only just about a week. Its not because I am lazy ass, which I am. But not in this instance. I sufferd from a writers block. You need to know though that this started a long time ago. A couple of years after varsity. I used to write poetry...Good poetry. But one morning I woke up and my mind retired. I would be working on one poem and ideas about another poem would pop up and my head would be all over the show. I just wouldn't know how to construct a piece.

Then, early this year a friend of mine told me about blogging and it really brought back my urge to write again. I started a blog and my old problems surfaced again. I had a cuople of articles then I flopped.

Now, I needed to understand exactly what was happening to me. Why i have this writers block and what causes it. Because i tried drinking water, jumping up and down for hours, hanging up side down on a pole (Don't know where i got that!!!) and other stuff like smacking myself but nothing worked.

So, I did some research. I ran into an article about this phenomenon by author, Arthur Hermansen. It was a long article but to cut it short he basically says this happens because "part of the creativity process happens to reside in the subcoscious mind, where coscious recognition is not present." It really makes sense because during that period you really feel ideas flowing through but u cant capture them. Its like being in a room full of flies. You see them but you cant catch them. Everything happens so fast and it gets confusing.

I found my ways to avoid this. A good piece of paper works wonders. Just throw everything randomly on a piece of paper. Once you have it infront of you, its easy to organize the raw data.

The writing shall go on!