Greetings everyone
I was seated with my hand flipping on the keyboard and my brain storming real hard to pick up words to push them to my fingers to type, but nothing was coming out.
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It occurred to me that I had spent up to 3 hours brain-racking on what to write and nothing had come forth. That was when I made the move to go and rant on this community about how I've recently been attacked by writer's block.
Okay, this will sound like a joke to my close friends in this blockchain because they know how quickie I am when it comes to writing.
The whole issue started last week. I remember I was able to write just one article on Monday after many struggles, and after that, I launched into Dreamland because it was as if my brain just conquered the three countries that fought against Jehoshaphat and his small country.
That Monday, I concluded that maybe it's because of the workload I had, plus some unnecessary bugging thoughts from family that caused it, so I believed the next day would be better... but no way.
I woke up on Tuesday's morning, quickly picked up a prompt in the Minimalist community, pondered on it for about an hour, and luckily, an idea came up, and hey, I rushed to take advantage of the inflow of ideas, and with just a starter, a knock came on my door. I responded to the person, and that's how the already curtailed idea left me handicapped.
"What's happening to my brain?"
I began to ponder on the topic, and after a while, I got the ideas back, but putting them into writing became a very big task.
"No way, there's no way I'm letting you win!" I gave myself the boost that it needed. I took my brain with me to work while I kept pondering and analysing how to put them(ideas) into writing, and luckily, after the work, I was able to pour out the words.
Thank God!
"Should I write another one?" I asked myself if I could write another one for the day, and what came out next was a blast... I found myself laughing at myself. Lol 😅
I just let things be and hope that the one I wrote for that day will attract a reasonable number of upvotes, at least to compliment my dogged brain. I slept off, watched AFCON match in the middle of the night, and when I woke up the next morning, I logged straight into my account to see if there'd been any votes, and shockingly "there was and there wasn't."
The vote I had came from someone, not from the expected vote from the community. I smiled and tried to get my brain calm because I didn't want it to get tensed and possibly get angry.
It seems my writing zeal is only available in the morning.
I didn't want to miss the morning chance, so I quickly wrote one in Hivenaija, a prompt I considered very simple and was not expecting anything from it. All my plan was to write a make-up in the evening before night falls, but when the evening came, everywhere became blunt.
I spread the prompts from different communities on the desk, I tried to pick one but no way, absolutely none of them gave me the writing vibe, even when I had little ideas.
So, this happens to be the make up for the day😅
It's so funny that I almost dropped my keyboard when typing this, but I had to man up and grind it till the end.
I laughed so hard while pouring out all these n0ns3nse because it's just mere ranting about my laziness head.
Tell me, how do you get away with writer's block???
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