Dear Paper/Article,

Nice to meet you. You almost did not exist. After countless hours staring at my computer screen and writing sentence after sentence, here we are. I finally wrote you.

People talk about writers block, as it is something that is controllable and easily managed, as if I know when it is going to creep up and take my thoughts away. Often times, my paper has a deadline and perhaps great ideas and coherent sentences do not form until the night before I have to turn sed paper in. For most, this usually occurs in college/university. Writers block sometimes has a deadline, thus your paper reaks of "wanting to get it over with" as opposed to, "something I care about."

There are ways to get rid of the block. One is to find your flow state. This is how I wrote you.

Flow, I have found, comes from various angles. In papers/articles I do not particularly care for the subject matter, it usually comes from an article I find, one that carries enough data or facts to fill the rest of the remaining pages. In papers/articles, I do care immensely about creating, I find flow comes with passion. If real emotion pours on to the pages, then papers/articles are easy to write. These papers/articles do not feel like a job, they feel like your life.

You, article, were originally one of passion as always when writing for 'The Odyssey Online.' Then, after writers block broke me down, we migrated towards a weeks worth of "word vomit" none sufficient enough to publish. From there, you became a self proclaimed deadline paper; I had to get you in for you to be published on time.

Now, guess what? You are a passion article yet again; you have made quite the journey.

Thanks for sticking by me and making myself believe I could indeed write you. We went through some misleading times, but I would not change a thing. Not only are you are a passion of mine but I turned you in on the proper deadline. Lastly, you taught me a lot about the importance of the times where writers block does not exist and why I should also be thankful for the times it does.

Until next time,

The girl who almost did not write you