Writer's block...
For the last few days I’ve trying to put a short story together, I’ve ready thought about the end and the beginning, and some things in between, but what pisses me off is that as soon as I sit down to write I get completely blank… it is like the images and the words in my head get mixed up and it is impossible to discern one from the other.
I don’t know if any of you have experienced something like this before… it is very annoying, and even more for someone like me that enjoys writing something and then reading it from the beginning and liking it… it is like and addiction. A writer from my dad’s office said to me once that when a writers starts writing something he/she might get to a state of mind called “the alpha state”, in this “phase” the writer loses control over what he/she is writing, as if the story and the characters came to life. I’ve have experienced that a few times now, and I got to tell you, is amazing and also one of the reason why I like to write this much… so achieve that state of total creativity emancipation.
The second reason of why I like to write is to be able to touch someone’s life… it is a great feeling when you write a sad story and later, when a friend reads it, he/she start’s to cry… or might just smile in silence as he/she turns the last page. For any writer that have had experienced this I know that the whole “I write for myself” bullshit looses any sense. It is different to write WHAT YOU LIKE, writing what you like is what always has to happen, but even if you write a beautiful poem or a great story and the only one that gets to read it is you… well that is sad, a waste, pure egoism. So I always write what I like but I like doing so with a certain degree of quality thinking in the ones that might read it in the future.
That is why I like to write and also that is why I feel so damn frustrated when I can’t.
ARGH!
I don’t know if any of you have experienced something like this before… it is very annoying, and even more for someone like me that enjoys writing something and then reading it from the beginning and liking it… it is like and addiction. A writer from my dad’s office said to me once that when a writers starts writing something he/she might get to a state of mind called “the alpha state”, in this “phase” the writer loses control over what he/she is writing, as if the story and the characters came to life. I’ve have experienced that a few times now, and I got to tell you, is amazing and also one of the reason why I like to write this much… so achieve that state of total creativity emancipation.
The second reason of why I like to write is to be able to touch someone’s life… it is a great feeling when you write a sad story and later, when a friend reads it, he/she start’s to cry… or might just smile in silence as he/she turns the last page. For any writer that have had experienced this I know that the whole “I write for myself” bullshit looses any sense. It is different to write WHAT YOU LIKE, writing what you like is what always has to happen, but even if you write a beautiful poem or a great story and the only one that gets to read it is you… well that is sad, a waste, pure egoism. So I always write what I like but I like doing so with a certain degree of quality thinking in the ones that might read it in the future.
That is why I like to write and also that is why I feel so damn frustrated when I can’t.
ARGH!
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