Writer's Block!
Finding topics to write about is a real tough job. I remember the day when I decided to start my blog. It all began with googling for the best blogging platform. Since Blogspot was the only thing I had heard about until then, I made up my mind to find something else. I wanted to explore something new. It was WordPress that caught my fancy. ‘WordPress sounds nice, isn’t it?’ I thought.
I began with WordPress but it took some while for me to get accustomed to it. The large number of menus in the admin page was something that got me confused. This initiated the saga of me clicking at every menu that came across the screen. With so many menus and sub-menus around, it was a bit scary and several times I even felt like I lost my way. When i was visiting Daily Post to get some ideas for my posts I came across the POSTAWEEK 2011 Badge. It looked pretty smart and I couldn’t resist to put that up on my blog home page. It said I had to take a vow that ‘I will be posting on this blog once a week for all of 2011′ to make sure that I don’t betray the purpose of that badge. Since those were my early blogging days, the passion was high. I took the vow and decided for the sake of humanity that I would be posting every week 
. That week I wrote 4 posts. I felt overwhelmed with what I had done! This journey couldn’t have had a better start.
For the next month (june), I could write a total of just 3 posts, that too with great difficulty. I couldn’t simply think what I would write. There seemed to be a drought in my writing ideas. I could have written anything I wish to but what could it be? I didn’t know! But I contented myself with the 3 posts. The month of July was even worse. I wrote 2 posts out of which one was reproduced (through press this) from another blog. In my entire life I never faced such a serious trauma because of my inability to guess any writing ideas! In short, I failed with my pledge. I couldn’t fulfil it.
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I came across a word at the same time – ‘writer’s block’. Finally, I got something to justify my inactivity in writing. I came to know that : ‘Writer’s Block can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task at hand. At the other extreme, some “blocked” writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers. It can manifest as the affected writer viewing their work as inferior or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite.’
It can manifest as the affected writer viewing their work as inferior or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite – this sentence caught my attention. One can conclude from this sentence that, when suffering from a writer’s block one just needs to forget everything and just write. Keep writing. But of course, it’s always easier said than done. This month my creative juices resumed their flow and I wrote 6 posts ( including 1 reproduced ) in a span of 10 days! This is my 7th post for this month and I am on a high!
Going by my previous record, I can only hope that the ‘writer’s block’ ghost doesn’t catch me back and push its pedal again.
