Writer’s Block

(I actually wrote this a few years ago, but it fits perfectly, so why not!)

You sit there, staring at either your computer or your paper.  You try to think, but all you can do is stare.  It’s as if your creativity had just been switched off.  You slap your forehead, saying, “Come on brain!  Think!”

Still no ideas.

Suddenly, you feel this tiny flicker of movement in your thought plane–but it goes away instantly.  Your brain is literally teasing you.  Minute after minute goes by, until you actually think you’re going insane.  You’re on the verge of dipping your head in ice-water, to revive yourself from wordlessness.  Instead, you scream into the pillow on your couch.  Ahh… that feels better.  Back to staring.  And staring.  And staring.  Tick tock tick tock…

That’s it.  You put your writing utensils aside, and stand in the middle of the room.  Then, as if you have ants in your pants, you start shaking your limbs like you’re crazy (maybe you are).  Finally, after about five minutes, you stop acting like a madman.  You sit, once again, in your spot of non-creativity.  You grab your pencil/put your fingers on the keypad and…

Nope.  Still nothing.  Grr!  Does writing really have to be so hard?  Just when you think you’re just not going to write anything, and you put away your writing utensils for the day,

BAM!!!

Idea!  You get to work immediately.