Writer’s block is a challenge i have encountered not once or twice but many times since i started my career as a writer. I didn’t know there was anything called writer’s block until i joined the hive blockchain. I started my writing career with fire and passion, the drive and motivation I started with those years ago birthed a lot of beautiful results, one of the results being ranked in the top 10 on the weekly hive engagement leaderboard. I remember how i didn’t encounter anything like writer’s block in my early years on the hive blockchain, I could write as many quality posts as I wanted provided there’s a big miraculous vote waiting for me afterwards. As a result of my consistency, I have achieved different milestones as a writer, one of it being the buzzy bee badge. This all continued until a few months after my second year…
Even as a college student, i never really experienced anything called writer’s block, I could deliver as much as possible, especially if it’s something within my field or niche. There was no amount of stress that could stop me from delivering hundred percent. As a primary student, i was an oral narrator. I could form and narrate any story i wanted to people, all i just needed was an audience and i am unstoppable. I didn’t experience any blocks then because it was something I loved doing…
Everything changed when i started writing here. The first time i experienced writer’s block was the day i went out with my mum very early to lagos to get some school supplies for my elder brother. We left home to lagos very early that year, we got to Lagos before 10 am and the tour around the whole market started. The tour started around that time and ended around 8 pm in the night…
I got home feeling tired, drained and exhausted both physically and mentally. If only i knew how crazy that journey would be that day, i would have published a post before tagging along with my mum that very day. Unfortunately, I tagged along without a backup plan and saw the results later that day…
I got back that night and the first thing i did was to open my draft to start writing my post. I opened the writing interface on peakd frontend that year to pour out everything i had in my head and nothing was coming. It felt like there was nothing in my head, when i clearly had everything in there. I kept on trying to get them out for hours and nothing was coming forth. I closed my draft, sat down and thought deeply about what could be wrong…
I didn’t know writers face such challenges in their writing career, and moreover I haven’t experienced it before in over two years, so why now, why today of all days. Funny enough, I didn’t even know what i was battling with that night even had a name, until i fought my way out after 4 hours…
I realized there was no way i would be able to deliver hundred percent with a prompt topic, so i decided to throw my feelings out there to everyone on the blockchain. I expressed how incapable i was when this whole thing started, including my feelings during the whole process…
I kept on ranting on and on, and before I knew it I had over 900 words staring at me. I clicked on publish and guess what, I checked my post hours later and there were different feedbacks on my post, i had comments from people, with different solutions recommended by them to fight it. It was that day I knew a word called writer’s block existed…
I sat down again after that post to understand that challenge deeply, i went back to the beginning of that day to figure out and pin point what led to it. After hours of thinking, I realized the major factor was stress. And if i can remember correctly, i shared with you guys how physically and mentally and exhausted I was that night. I guess that was what blocked me…
After that day, i saw writer’s block as a challenge that could surface anytime, anyday, therefore i needed to find a permanent solution for it. The second time it happened, same thing caused it but i didn’t panic, i closed my draft and went to sleep. I woke up in the afternoon and decided to see movies. I was on Netflix for hours and before I knew it, the words started flowing in endlessly and immediately I opened my draft and poured out my thoughts, it was very easy and smooth…
There were days where sleeping and movies didn’t get be back on track, i devised another solution for that again. Whenever i realize I’m blocked, and nothing seems to be working for me, including sleeping and seeing movies, i just open my draft and write in details how i’m feeling that very moment. I lash out while explaining my feeling in details, which I publish afterwards and in no time i get better…
In conclusion, as a writer, writer’s block is bound to set in at some point in one’s career. When it happens, fret not, just take a deep breath, relax and take a break. Get yourself engaged in that which you enjoy doing so much and i bet with you, you’ll be fine hours later…
THANKS FOR READING…