Writer’s block is the issue in which a writer encounters when they are unable to produce any ideas or formulate words into cohesive sentences in order to create a piece of writing. Writer’s block is a more sophisticated way of saying that you are “stuck” in your writing.

Now, here I am. Stuck. Instead of searching the internet for ways to help writer’s block, I decided to write about writer’s block. I am producing work that is something about the absence of ideas to write about. That is confusing. Writer’s block is confusing. I am confused. I suppose that if I were not experiencing writer’s block, I would not be confused and the readers of this would not be subjected to my abysmal stream of consciousness.

Typically, when I find myself at a loss for subjects to write about, I try to pick topics based on my interests and my skills. Since I frequently find myself searching my brain for writing topics, I feel as though I have exhausted all of the options that immediately come to mind. Topics like dance, makeup, and lame Netflix shows seem to be overdone by me. Sure, I could dig really deep and write about my inner demons and my emotions, but sometimes things are better kept light-hearted.

This sort of metacognitive process of thinking about thinking and writing about writing has not gotten me very far this time in developing a topic to write about other than writing about writer’s block. Is this how the greatest authors write their best books? Does the best work start with a case of writer’s block or do truly talented writers always have topics at their disposal to produce phenomenal work? Will my writer’s block lead to my demise or will it lead to my success? Am I truly experiencing writer’s block or am I lazy and uncreative?

Before I delve into existential questions and further berate myself with self-deprecating questions about my writing work ethic, I need to readdress the point. Writing about writer’s block has not brought me to any new ideas of what to write about…other than writer’s block. I do not know how to fix this problem, so I do not see myself producing a Wikihow article in the near future. However, I have allowed you, the reader of this, an entrance into my stream of consciousness as I encounter writer’s block.