writers block is a myth

Definition according to Merriam-Webster dictionary : The problem of not being able to think of something to write about or not being able to finish writing a story, poem, et.c.

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First off, how in the world can you not think of anything to write about? I can write right now, look it I´m doing it now so  let me see…. I see a bottle of water right next to my computer why because it´s almost 30 degrees celsius, my heart is pounding at the thought that if temperature keeps on rising, and by the way it´s 12:25 a.m here in the land of the wild bulls I might get a heart attack. You know how screwed up it would be to die right now typing away. What in the world would my toombstone read, “he died doing what he loved, although at that moment he was hot as hell he was uncomfortable and had writers block so not really, he was actually miserable doing what he loved” This just came out of the top of my head. And with this I can probably write a short story. Now, if it´s a good one or a bad one that´s entirely different thing. But not being able to think of something to write about…come on. Is not rocket science. Just type away about whatever you see, a picture, a post in a blog, something you saw on t.v. Just hit the damn keyboards is not that difficult. I do have ten fingers and only use two to write. I´m that cool. I can write something right now about a writer who has typed so much during his life, a failed life of writing because in his mind he can´t finish a story and now that he is able to do so his other 8 fingers are not working so now it´s a tragedy, since it´s a painfully slow process and then just put some strange weird obstacle for that character to overcome.

Not being able to finish a story or poem? I can´t see that happening. Look:
Roses are red
Violets are blue
who are you
don´t know,
so screw you.

There it is, I just finished a poem. And a great one, at least for me, don´t care about what others say. How can you not finish a poem? Plus who in the world knows when somebody has finished a poem, if you don´t see an ending to it, I don´t know, just call it abstract poetry and write something random like this:

I don´t know
maybe you do
who you?
thinking of you
dark sea blue.

Makes any sense….maybe, maybe not. Maybe it has some insight in human nature or I´m just playing with words and playing with myself. Not in that sense though. Playing with my brain, so that´s part of me, therefore myself. And this piece of art is so cool that it won´t even go to school.

Writing a novel, that´s another science. But I can finish it, whether it turns out goo or bad, again that´s a whole other thing. But you sure can finish it, and if not move on to write some poetry or write some random stuff. Have fun, and once you have it, sort off has to come a bit more natural to write just about anything. So by strict definition, there is actually no writers block. I´m actually starting to think that somebody had to invent that to make people doubt themselves, then he or she created a bunch of miserable writers and he or she made a business out of making them take his or her classes to overcome the so called writers block. Sort of politics, you create a turmoil and then you enter the scene as the saviour.

Just a thought from an experience writerimages I have no clue who that person is, just stumbled upon it on google, while I was actually doing a research paper on pornography. I know, it´s kind of weird but I do  have to maintain by imagination open to all types of writing. Jesus, if there are porn scripts…do those guys ever have writers block. Never mind this last thought.

Stay Frosty gents and gentesses.

 

41 comments

  1. This is something Steven Pressfield might say in his book about writing if he has a pair of hairy balls.

    No offense Mr.Pressfield. I’m forever a fan.

    1. I just wikipidia this guy, don´t know about his writing I do know he was in the military, homeless, and had a bunch of shitty jobs. So we have those three things in common.

      My hairy balls are actually like marvels really…

    1. I didn´t, but I have my cool website that knows everything called wikipidia, and it seems this goes back after WW2 where military pshychiatrist where involved and for the little that I´ve gathered the definition and what symptoms are under DMS are very broad and quite convoluted. In 2013 they did the 5 revision to the term DMS….so go figure.
      Now every kid and adult is diagnosed with ADD and ADHD, in my years if I didn´t concentrate on my math writing my mom would give me a swap behind the head and suddenly my neurons would focus on 2+2 equals not 3 but 4. Just saying, even people who have trouble waiting in line suffer from some kind of thing and suddenly the are diagnosed with PTSD.

      Everybody has his or her own little things going on in their head, except now they seem to put names at every single thing and sort of box you in. I´m not a big fan of that.

      If I would go to my parents and say, hey, this kid just pushed me around and I´m feeling terrible, the answer that was given by my mother was quite simple, first stop with the crying is not doing you any good, second tell the teacher and if the teacher doesn´t do anything about it, if the kid pushed you you don´t push him back, you knock him back so he won´t get up again and bully you. Actually it turned out fine when I was in highschool and got harrased by the cool Joks, I knocked down one of them in front of his buddies, and never got spit in the face again. So I certainly must have some mental disorder. As well as the whole earth´s population.

      They should make a study about what type of mental disorder the Muslim extremist terrorist have. I´ll ask them if they let me, and I have a cure for them called “drone them”.

      What a rant….but I sort off got a point though.

  2. Well i disagree and i it is not a myth!!! People do have blocks, i have one now so i know!!!! And its not just about writing anything!!! with a block i can still write but it wouldn’t be as per my expectations!! Sorry to say but it makes no sense!!! :/

    1. Did you read the post at all? you just said what I wrote, that of course you can write but if it´s a good writing or not is a completely another thing. It´s an ironic post…. I´m done explaining things to you. Look, here is a . (that´s a period)

      1. I´ll give you a pointer. You always write about being open to cross culture(meaning understanding others people point of views) and you also talk a lot about what you believe in, saving animals, no war, basically living in La La land. That´s great I respect that.

        But in reality, you enter a conversation with your own perceived notion as to what you should say, so you really don´t even pay attention as to what you are reading or hearing. You have your mind already set up for certain perceived things and whoever disagrees or makes an argument against it, of course they are the worst of the worst and you go all emotional screaming things, not even being rational. And let me tell you something else(says professor charly) you have a master in communications right? Well, I don´t. I have a Maser in life, quite a hard one. So I know this, if you enter in to an argument which to me is perfectly fine first off read the text or make some kind of rational argument based on the text you read not on your own little thing that you have going on in your head. So to be a good debater is essential to keep calm, push the emotions aside since the emotions will eventually cloud your judgement. See? I can be a college teacher, this will only cost you…let´s see, maybe a little kiss? 😉

      2. Well by the strict definition of “Go away”, it sort of doesn´t make any sense. Since I´m not near you, so if I´m away already how can I even go more away. Are you trying to invent a new science now? Yeah I know you, you´re inventing the “Go away” theory…no kisses then?

      3. The “Go away theory” Is defined by an unnamed psychiatrist, as a term where one person or entity tell the other person or entity to “go away” as a defense mechanism for to protect themselves after they realised normally consciously or sometimes unconsciously that what they are saying, that is the first entity, that they are not making sense on what they are saying and they know deep down they are making a mistake. So in order to protect themselves they go back to a childish behaviour, which is either to say “Go away” or “shut up”. Therefore shutting down all possible discussion hence any communication at all.

        I just copied and pasted this from Wikipidia.

  3. Writer Ernest Hemingway dodged bullets as a war correspondent, fought bulls in Spain, and hunted big game in Africa-but when asked to name the scariest thing he ever encountered, he answered, “A blank sheet of paper.”

    For many of us, the symptoms of writer’s block-staring at a blank computer screen or page with no clue how to begin, stomach clenching, throat tightening,-are all too familiar. But is our suffering a real syndrome or simply an excuse for being unproductive?

    “Sure, writer’s block is real,” says poet and essayist Julia Spicher Kasdorf, director of Penn State’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing. “It’s as real as any kind of anxiety.”

    Writer’s block, defined as a temporary inability to begin or continue a writing project due to fear, anxiety or lack of inspiration-strikes professional and non-professional writers alike. It is not a clinical psychological diagnosis and you won’t find the causes and cures for it on WebMD, yet the creative paralysis can last a few minutes or up to decades in extreme cases.

    1. dodge bullets…..Mr Hemingway, ha ha, are you sure you read the post? are you off your medication? You can keep ranting all you want, the more the marrier.

  4. I believe that writer’s block, like fear, is an illusion. It is not real. We think it is, because that’s how powerful our minds are. But it’s not real. By thinking it’s real, we’re making it real.

    To break this illusion you must face the music. Sit in your desk and actually start writing, whether it turn out good or bad. Dodge bullets. Like Hemingway (haha). Face your own mortality. Because that’s the biggest fear, the biggest illusion, the fear of death.

    1. Just saying, according to the strict definition it just can´t happen. How can somebody not write. Now, if it doesn´t meet up to the standards you want that is a complete other subject. Plus this post was an ironic fun post. And I think most people got it, even Hemigway the great hero a wannabe soldier idealistic dodger of bullets.

      1. Writer’s block is fear. Fear of failure. Fear of success. When the person is crippled with fear, he can’t approach the red-dress-wearing-girl in the bar. He can’t fight the fat kid in high school who bullied him. He can’t sit in his desk to start writing something. Fear is happening but it is an illusion. Writer’s block is happening, the mind made it real.

        I agree with your post, and most of the things you’ve said in the comments. Fear is happening. It’s just shitty people labeled it “writer’s block”. And Ms. Mirriam webster’s definition sucks

      1. I´m actually re reading the comments, I don´t get myself wind up but I´m actually feeling bad now. Because she can´t make a rational argument and I sound like a fucking pompous know it all asshole.

        Although it is good entertainment for the rest of the people I know that much. To tell you the truth when I first open up the comment and saw what it said I though about you, I though I´m sure Miss. Aime is going to read this and have a ball with it while your “working”

      2. Well you are a pompous who thinks he knows it all! haha. But it’s great I like it.
        HA! Well yeah it did cheer me up a little, although I have so much to do today I really should crack on but fuck it. Hopefully won’t be here much longer anyway! 😀

  5. Reading your posts and the comments are always an entertaining adventure – cracks me up!! You & 10eveningflowers go at it all the time 🙂 At the risk of pissing you both off – get a room . . . the sexual tension is ~S~R~E~A~M~I~N~G~ 😉 LMAO!!
    Having said that, it’s just my luck, y’all are related – now really laughing my ass off!! Yes, I often crack myself up 😉
    In regards to the post – I have had “writer’s block” but I agree, it’s totally a mindf*c! – more often than not, like was mentioned – fear of failure, fear of success, procrastination, bored/uninspired – totally self-inflicted & must be pushed through, especially if you are being paid to write!
    ☮ ☮ ☮

    1. If you are paid to write something good it´s another thing, or try to really finish a product that in your mind you think is good and you have set out to finish and then you are stuck in some part of the story. That´s different from the strict definition of it. Because I´m writing right now! And you can always finish, find an ending, maybe you have the character stuck in the middle of the road and there is still a whole bunch of story line to go but you can´t move forward with ideas so you just say “And Jimmy just stood in the middle of the road waiting to get struck by a car. The End” So you can finish everything, weather is bad or not it´s a whole different story. But I think you sort off got the post and how I write things.

      The comments…man o man, I decided to stop responding to those comments, although I was going it over myself since your the second person that told me about it and I was actually smiling at myself. I´m a pretty good debater you have to give me that.

  6. Hey Sir Writer = you know, I do not always have the time to read comments on people’s blogs – wish I did = in fact – I do not have the time to even read posts on all of the blogs I love – but today I read your comment (above at ) and I am sooooo glad I did because your words were perfect. And the way your worded

    “So I know this, if you enter in to an argument which to me is perfectly fine first off read the text or make some kind of rational argument based on the text you read not on your own little thing that you have going on in your head.”

    wait – let me cut and paste the chunk of what you NAILED so well….

    “But in reality, you enter a conversation with your own perceived notion as to what you should say, so you really don´t even pay attention as to what you are reading or hearing. You have your mind already set up for certain perceived things and whoever disagrees or makes an argument against it, of course they are the worst of the worst and you go all emotional screaming things, not even being rational. And let me tell you something else(says professor charly) you have a master in communications right? Well, I don´t. I have a Maser in life, quite a hard one. So I know this, if you enter in to an argument which to me is perfectly fine first off read the text or make some kind of rational argument based on the text you read not on your own little thing that you have going on in your head.”

    ~~~

    I appreciate this because twice recently I experienced a small issue with two bloggers who were doing this exact thing = they were not really responding to what I had said = they were not reading the text of what I actually wrote – and they overlooked the current things begin said so they could keep expounding from old thoughts that were stirring in their heads – they had the same farm arguments they did months ago – and disregarded what I actually wrote – and I lost respect for him and her (in different discussions) because they both did not “read the text or make some kind of rational argument based on the text…” and that pulls away from any legitimate discussion or debate…. and I was not able to really articulate what I sensed they were doing – but you summed it up for me – they were arguing the same recycled responses they had for years without “even pay attention as to what you are reading or hearing…..”

    so thanks for this Spaniard – 🙂

    Mr. Prior

  7. Hi. I liked your post, Charly. It made me chuckle. And I really liked your random poem. That was awesome! I don’t know what it means, either, but it’s great! You should try more random ones and see how it goes!

    1. randjw
      i don´t know you
      but wold lie to be like you
      you see Sue?
      that is my daughter
      and i just lost the wáter

      I don´t even remember that comment, now you are making me back to go and see….. evil devil

  8. I may be too late into reading this post, but it was funny and amazing.
    Personally, I do feel its kind of true. even when you feel you are in a so called writer’s block you can write. One can also just read some stuff and find inspirations coz inspirations for a writer is everywhere.

    1. Thanks for reading, I don´t care if it was too late or quick. I just write and post it, somethings that is, if you see all my notebooks……point being I´m glad you read it. I know I´m not going to live out of writing but this is my therapy.
      About the writers block, I do keep a journal of what has happened to me everyday, might be somethings usefull others wont, but I am writing. It can be shit though, but I am writing and from there you get or at least me, get some ideas here and there that you might use for my own writing or not, there are other factors ofcourse like reading and for me music, specially whith the poetry thing. Another thing is writing a novel, that is a whole other world for me, but slowly I´ll get to it finished. No hurries for me. I have to live my day to day life which is not easy, so I can´s spend my day writing and learning how to write fiction from the experts, I need to wake up and make money or I´m out in the Street again, so point being, there is no writers block and I Will retract my previous thought about writing a novel, I can write it quick if I put the effort and have time, but is it good or bad? Up to who ever reads it, but I am writing, so screw that writing block thing

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