According to
the dictionary a writer’s block is defined as a temporary psychological
inability to begin or continue work on a piece of writing. But, we common
people don’t wait to go deep into psychology, we rather know about a writer’s block
when we see a writer throw papers in to the dustbin. We also commonly see them these days when an
English exam is on!
There are
multitudinous ways by which writers deal with this kind of block, one of the
path which is most treaded on is forgetting about the piece of writing
altogether. Another vexing and uninteresting method is when the writer ensues with
his work with an irrational ending after a good start. A more experienced and
clever writer would rather start all over again.
Now-a-days
writers are so unplanned and undecided that some of them stop to think for
forty five minutes straight after each and every paragraph. Why do you think it
takes longer to write an English paper than any other subject paper?
You’ll be
surprised to know how aggressive writers can get when they have the writer’s
block. They usually harass their friends to help them. The most common
dialogues writers say to their friends are: “Get something out of that brain and
help me!” “Why can’t you think of something, there must be something hidden
somewhere, give me anything!”
I’ll tell
you, you’d never want to be in front of a writer having writer’s block; they
can be as erratic as the Indian monsoon season. One of the thousand reasons you
need to stay away from such writers is that even if you tell them something to
help, they’ll disagree with you and come up with dialogues like; “You are just
an augmentation to the block in my head!” Writers don’t go easy on you.
Some people
like me follow the policy of writing is better than not writing at all. In fact
writing about a writer’s block is way better than being furious with yourself
for not writing at all.
Writers are
delighted when ideas just pop into their mind, but that moment is short-lived,
because soon they find out that they have nothing to write about it at all. No
planning leads to such situations. Then they brag about it for long time just
because an idea struck them and they weren’t able to pen it down like it is the
end of the world or something.
One other
way which a writer goes past his block is by making no sense at all. He just
writes big words just to confuse the readers, so they think he has written
something great just because the work is very wordy. Readers feel that the
writer is Shakespeare just because of those big words.
Writers, one
thing they forget to do is stay calm when their thoughts are blocked. They get
panic-stricken. They forget that the
reason for the block could be the topic they’ve chosen. Imagine if J.K. Rowling
wrote Julius Caesar and Shakespeare wrote Harry Potter! The two stories would
be completely different form the original version as the writers have different
styles of writing. Pick the right topic. Something you know about or are
interested in researching about.
The other
day I was trying to write something and the block in my brain didn’t seem to
leave me. My friend was sitting beside me, so I asked him, “Have any ideas?” My
counterpart looked at me drowsily and said, “Ideas? For that thing you’re
writing?” Then he gave out a big yawn. I was furious, and then I gave him the
glare, the glare which would stay etched in his memory, the glare that would
terrorise him when he would think about it, the writer’s glare!
Hasta la Vista,
K
