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This damn writers block man.

I feel like Spongebob writing an essay...help me.

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This damn writers block man.
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How obnoxious is this feeling? You have an idea and then *poof* you got nothing. You watch one episode of Grey's Anatomy to "brainstorm" and then suddenly you're five seasons in, reliving every painful memory from your childhood. Izzy is gone, George is dead and even though it's seasons away, Derek is dead and Meredith is alone. Now what do you do? Write that article you're supposed to be working on? Nope. What do you do instead? Browse Twitter, Instagram and even Facebook in hopes of finding some odd or infrequently talked about topic to discuss or give your wacky point of view on. After hours and hours of scrolling and clicking and retweeting you decide there's nothing here and that your fingers have a better purpose....yup you guessed it, folding that third piece of pizza as it approaches your mouth.

So you finished an entire pizza (are you happy now, look at what you've become) and you're tired but that article....that damn article is still due and your Word document still looks like Spongebob's paper after all those hours of writing and erasing. You have nothing accomplished, have a deadline quickly approaching and you're starting to panic. At this point it seems easier to email your Editor-In-Chief and tell him/her that your article is going to be late and that you're truly, truly sorry but you have writer's block. He/she shoots back with that expected response: "I guess it's fine but have you thought of this, this and this as possible topics?" You ponder that idea a little more and realize that you have no knowledge or background in any of those topics. Now what?

You curl up in bed in hopes of sleeping it off and deal with the fact that you have a late article and you're going to publish nothing this week...great. Then it hits you, like a legitimate punch in the face. Why not write about the struggles of writer's block? It's genius! It's just enough of a topic to be legit and real and you can even tell the world all the ways you spent your days procrastinating and "looking for ideas." What's even better is that you can phrase it as a letter and address everyone out there that's in the same boat. It's foolproof. You begin drafting it with your own emotions and feelings coming through right away; "How obnoxious is this feeling?" It's like the story is practically writing itself. The words are flowing out of you at an unbelievable pace that your fingers can't keep up with your brain and you're making all kinds of grammar mistakes. You take it to the next level and break the fourth wall (see what I did there) and those few out there that know what that means are impressed (oh please stop the praise) and others are perplexed and confused and take to Google. Before you even have a complete thought about how to end the piece you're writing, it's over. You have a well thought out, decently long, funny piece of writing that came out of nowhere and in all honesty isn't half bad. It's not the best thing you've ever written but it's not the worst; but hey, everyone struggles with writer's block, so what can you expect when you're writing about not knowing what to write about?

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