WE INTERRUPT YOUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMME TOOLS...WRITER'S BLOCK

Last week I started three posts that I could not seem to finish writing no matter how hard I tried. It seemed the harder I tried the worse it got. I went from sluggishly typing a word every now and then to a complete stop. I stared at a mostly blank screen for hours, hands poised over the keyboard and nada, not a word, or a sentence, or even a thought for that matter would spring forth.

What made it worse was the house was very noisy; my nephew was crying, televisions were blaring loudly, people were also talking loudly everything was just so LOUD and I needed complete silence because I was having difficulty writing, but silence I knew was not happening anytime soon *big deep sigh* because people need to talk, toddlers need to cry and movies sound better in surround sound. What was a girl to do in a situation like this?

I stared at the computer screen some more hoping that inspiration would pop out of its back-lighted depths but no such luck was forthcoming. What did happen though was this thought, Timi girl like you experiencing writer's block or something, quickly followed by this thought, I could do a post on writer's block; writing about not being able to write just might get me out of this writing funk, writer's block or whatever it was I was experiencing at the time.

So I checked Wikipedia to see what they had to say on the topic, it was along the lines of what I thought it was except for the part about it lasting for years, that part kind of freaked me out a little. 

 Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task at hand. At the other extreme, some "blocked" writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers.

I also checked YouTube, so I'd have the option to use either one or the other but I ended up choosing to use both because the video I found on YouTube paints a different and I have to say scarier picture to me at least.  The woman in the video uses the words FEAR, EMOTIONAL ISSUES, PARALYSIS...but what I think scares me most about this video is that some of the things she said are so true of me, it had me wondering whether writer's block was in my future.

Honestly I cannot imagine not being able to write for years possibly even never and yes I know there was a time when I actually stopped/chose not to write. I used to write stories accompanied by drawings in primary school, then I got sick and was hospitalized and I stopped writing...then I was too afraid to write but none of that is the same as or compares to NOT BEING ABLE to write.

The video is posted below please take a look at it, do not be afraid to watch it because of what I said, it scared me because I saw me in certain things she said but that does not mean that you should not watch it, it really is an interesting video and definitely an interesting and different take on writer's block.  

P.S. I finished the three posts later that night, into the wee hours of the next morning and published them.