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My Worst Nightmare: A.K.A Writer's Block

Th worst of all my nightmares...

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My Worst Nightmare: A.K.A Writer's Block

Every week I come to find myself in the same horrible predicament... It is my worst nightmare. Writer's Block. I try my absolute best every week to come up the best idea to write a five hundred plus worded article on whatever I want! I love writing so it isn't really that difficult to write five hundred words. I usually end up writing about my life or the people in my life that I love but I always feels like it gets old basically talking about the same exact stuff. Ya know... "I love you so much, what would I do without you?" I truly mean every word I write but it just gets old after awhile. The other articles I find myself mostly writing about is my illness. It is very rare, or so people think... I am a part of quite a few Facebook pages for my illness that has thousands of members suffering with the same illness my sister and I suffer with. Everyone in those groups always read and share my articles which is another plus when I write about the topic of my illness. Amongst many other topics that I write about, I also write numerous amounts of "Top 10 Things That... blah bla bla." I feel like it is always easier to write a listicle because it breaks it down so you know exactly how to space yourself out to make it to your article word count goal! So here are my top three stages of writer's block.

Stage one: Confidence.

Every week at the end of every article I write I always have confidence the I will write my next article with a great new topic. I always think that I will have it done just in time for my deadline. I ALWAYS think that it is going just be easy for me just to be able to make a article with no problem... lets just say that it never, EVER works out that way for me.

Stage two: Procrastination.

It is the same thing all the time, I think that by the end of the week I will have a great idea! Every day my chances of being able to write an amazing article in a breeze dwindles down by the minute. It is terrible... I know. It is unfortunate but procrastination runs in my family. Especially my mom (sorry mom,) Everyone who knows our family always troes to tell us an hour ahead of the time that they want to meet with us because we run on "Shelli Time."

Stage three: DENIAL

As I come to the conclusion that I have absolutely no idea what I am going to write about, I always rise out of the waters with an idea to be able to get me through my five hundred plus words. It is NOT always easy but I mostly always make it through to write a rockin' article (lol yeah right)


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