Writer's block
Writer's block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to begin or continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity.
Writer's block can be closely related to depression and anxiety two mood disorders that reflect environmentally caused or spontaneous changes in the brain's frontal lobe. This is in contrast to hypergraphia, more closely linked to mania, in which the changes occur primarily in the temporal lobe. These processes, and their implications for treatment, are described in neurologist Alice Flaherty's book The Midnight Disease.
However, another interpretation of writer's block, sometimes confused with scant output, is given in the book Silences, by Tillie Olsen, who argues that historically many women and working-class writers have been unable to devote themselves to, or concentrate on, their writing because their social and economic circumstances prevent them from doing so.
It is widely thought that writer's block is part of a natural ebb and flow in the creative process. Author Justina Headley explains in keynote speeches that for her it comes from losing touch with the characters about whom she is writing; and that by discovering who they are again, the block disintegrates.
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Who am I kidding? What I said to everyone: "My thesis is getting there..." "I'm almost done." "I have an outline anyway," were lies I used to justify my lack of output. I try. Of course I do. I sit everyday in front of my laptop or notebook and tried to write but the words just wouldn't come out. I even had to look at the dictionary because I can't think of the word 'stoic'.
I have only a week from my desired deadline when I would submit my final draft and I'm still stuck with the fifteen-page character introduction. I hate everything. I hate the fucking construction noises that make my head ring. I hate the fucking noiseless surrounding when the noise is gone. I hate the songs in my playlist and those that are not in it. I hate everything.
Someone... please... give my fucking mind back.
Writer's block can be closely related to depression and anxiety two mood disorders that reflect environmentally caused or spontaneous changes in the brain's frontal lobe. This is in contrast to hypergraphia, more closely linked to mania, in which the changes occur primarily in the temporal lobe. These processes, and their implications for treatment, are described in neurologist Alice Flaherty's book The Midnight Disease.
However, another interpretation of writer's block, sometimes confused with scant output, is given in the book Silences, by Tillie Olsen, who argues that historically many women and working-class writers have been unable to devote themselves to, or concentrate on, their writing because their social and economic circumstances prevent them from doing so.
It is widely thought that writer's block is part of a natural ebb and flow in the creative process. Author Justina Headley explains in keynote speeches that for her it comes from losing touch with the characters about whom she is writing; and that by discovering who they are again, the block disintegrates.
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Who am I kidding? What I said to everyone: "My thesis is getting there..." "I'm almost done." "I have an outline anyway," were lies I used to justify my lack of output. I try. Of course I do. I sit everyday in front of my laptop or notebook and tried to write but the words just wouldn't come out. I even had to look at the dictionary because I can't think of the word 'stoic'.
I have only a week from my desired deadline when I would submit my final draft and I'm still stuck with the fifteen-page character introduction. I hate everything. I hate the fucking construction noises that make my head ring. I hate the fucking noiseless surrounding when the noise is gone. I hate the songs in my playlist and those that are not in it. I hate everything.
Someone... please... give my fucking mind back.