Writer's Block

Do you ever feel like you just can't figure out what to write? Because I do. I have never been much of a writer, I have always expressed myself through my art, not writing. Writing has always been something that is really hard for me to get started and when I finally do it never seems to come out as well as I would want. Even now, I decided to write about writer's block because I had writers block, and I'm still not 100% sure where I am going with this. I got to the point where I actually looked up, "Blog ideas" because that is how severely I had writer's block! So, what better thing is there to write about when you have nothing else to write about?

Whenever I have had some kind of creative block, whether it comes to painting, drawing or any other sort of art that I do, I usually just Google things that interest me and somehow I just magically find inspiration! But that doesn't work for me when it comes to writers block. In so many ways writing feels like it is more open ended than art has ever been for me. Writing involves putting things into words in order for others to visualize what you visualize. For me, this task is daunting. So, while being in an endless pit of writers block I decided to look up some tips to help deal with writers block. Here are a few tips that really seem helpful to me:

1. Write what you know
2. Accept that you are going to write garbage
3. Stop worrying about originality.

I chose these tips because all three of these things are very relevant to myself. Writing what you know is so much easier than writing about something you know nothing about, this tip actually helped me decide to write about writer's block, I definitely know writer's block very well. I chose tip number two because (like I said in my first paragraph) whatever I write never seems to come out as well as I'd like. 

The very last tip is one of the most helpful in my opinion, in a way it goes along with "Write what you know" because if you stop worrying about originality you are probably writing what you know anyway. The way I look at it is like this, chances are somebody out there likes the same things that you like, or they have the same interests, so no matter what there are people out there thinking the same types of things that you are, so no matter what it isn't going to be 100% original.

Writing doesn't have to be hard, especially if you use these tips. I hope they help you as much as they helped me.