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Writer’s Block Isn’t Real
And yet I cannot figure out how to write right now
As soon as I was old enough to understand what writer’s block is, I insisted that there is no such thing. I began writing at a young age, in the form of storyboard-style illustrations and continued on to hand-written short stories once I had the attention span and ideas. I wrote my first ‘novel’ at 9, which was essentially very surreal B*Witched fan-fiction, which read exactly as you would expect from that description.
Throughout my teens, I traded in my over-dramatic short stories for over-dramatic, angst-riddled, emo poetry, before moving on to a series of false start attempts at novels. My first ‘real’ novel didn’t happen until my early twenties but it did jump-start things.
And no matter what stage I’ve been at in my writing ‘career’, I have stood by the fact that there is no such thing as writer’s block. To me, it felt like the excuse of the ‘literary fiction’ writer, stuck in their pursuit of writing the perfect novel. You know the ones I mean, the kind of writers who work on the same book for eight years in a row and wonder why it’ll never be finished.
Partly I’ve believed this because it seems so easy to fix. A few years ago, I felt stuck and wondered if I’d finally been hit by this dreaded condition. I was struggling to begin my…
