I have never once ever considered myself a writer. Honestly, I still don't. I only started writing for the Odyssey because my friend told me they needed more people to get the community I am part of launched. I figured "yeah I can spare a few hours a week to write". At the time I had a few ideas lined up as to what I could write about. Being the inexperienced writer I am, I failed to write down any of these ideas. I'm sure most of you are like me for the fact that you can randomly think of a good idea for something and within minutes you can not for the life of you remember what that idea was. Or you walk into a room for a specific purpose and as soon as you cross the threshold you forget why you ever walked into the room. So if you are anything like me, whenever you try to write literally anything more than a few sentences you instantly get writers block. So here are a few things that you do when you have writers block.
1. You put off writing until the last minute because you know trying to start will be almost pointless.
Unless you are under pressure of course.
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2. You watch a lot of Netflix.
You know to distract yourself from the fact that you have no idea what to write about.
3. You look up ways to get over writers block.
Things like choosing writing prompts or making sure to write about something you love or are passionate about.
4. You text your friends for help thinking of something to write about.
You ask them for good ideas or big events going on in society.
5. You realize that solely by asking your friends for help you gave them your writers block too.
Yes it is contagious.
6. You look up hundreds of writing prompts.
You look through almost all of the prompts you find and end up saying they are all stupid.
7. You end up thinking about completely random things... What was I writing about again?...
You basically lose your train of thought after every sentence you try to write and have to rein yourself back in to write.
8. Sometimes you get into the very middle of your article and completely forget the point you were trying to make.
And if you can't remember the point you were trying to make you completely start your article over.
9. You get writers block in the middle of what you're writing just to realize you still need a few hundred words before your article can be published.
Then you feel absolutely defeated wondering how in the world are you going to write enough to publish the article.
10. You go to YouTube hoping to find inspiration...
And end up watching makeup tutorials instead.
11. You come back to writing your article to realize its been hours since you got on YouTube.
This is when you realize how deep YouTube can go and how lost you can get into the website.
12. You realize it is taking you way too long to write this article.
Then frantically start writing trying to finish faster because you are a busy person and have other things to do too.
13. You realize that yes, it is possible to get writers block writing about writers block.
And then you start this list all over again.
14. You turn off your computer because you're tired of thinking for the night.
Then you guilt trip yourself into turning your computer back on because you know you need to finish writing.
15. You get distracted by literally everything.
Especially how soft and fluffy your dog is. Insert dog picture here.
16. You end up writing a completely pointless list about writers block.
Exhibit A: this article.
