Writers Block
Do you believe writers block is real or an apparition? Doctors and authors who believe in writers block agree the most common causes are depression, anxiety, and not dedicating enough time to the creative process.
Writers block clearly stands out amongst mental conundrums. When I was a software engineer no one seemed to care how long a complex program could perplexed me. As a supervisor I am occasionally stumped for months regarding serious personnel issues and still no one seems to care. Doctors are not lining up to study perplex programmers or stumped supervisors and no one seems interested in writing endless volumes of literature about these conditions. Why does writers block stand out so vividly amongst its peers?
Jacob
Stumble it!
March 18th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Well, people have been writing longer than they’ve been programming. I live in a state of constant writers block. Its only when I wrestle myself down to write a few sentences that the floodgates open. The first steps are always the hardest.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I believe writers block is real, however I would argue with someone who tried to blame a specific mental state such as depression to be the cause of it. Rather I believe it is the lack of inspiration that you may be experiancing at a given time. For every person and every situation, inspiration is different. For me for instance, I suffer from depression, however that pain inspires me to write. I actually experiance more writers block when I’m not depressed than when depressed. The writing in turn is a cure almost for my depression. Its something of a balance I have found for myself. In the work environment I am asked to motivate our team. I can experiance a creative block when my team is unresponsive, I am no longer inspired when my team doesn’t care. But when I hit upon something the team can get into, well then the ideas flow, I am inspired.
For me the cure to writers block, find what inspires us, search it out and grab onto it! Use whatever it is your pain, or your joy. Your peers or your independance. Don’t let anyone sway you from it either. I get told quite often, well your writing is depressing. Why don’t you write something happy? I will write something happy. The day that I am inspired to. Writers block is really just trying to force out something that doesn’t want to be writen. Atleast not right now.