WRITER'S BLOCK!

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