The Difference Between Procrastination and A Writing Block

Is your psyche trying to tell you something when you can’t put words on the page?

If self-flagelation would cure a writing block, I’d corner the market in whips and bats and retire on a warm beach with turquoise water and white sand.

Sadly, it isn’t that easy to beat a story out of a recalcitrant psyche. Else, what writer worth her delete key wouldn’t gladly suffer a few bruises and black eyes just to hit publish on a regular basis.

They may be garbage words, but at least they’d fill a page. Proof that I don’t suffer from writing block. Right?

Well, almost.

It’s been ages since I’ve suffered from that terrifying, frozen state where I’ve stared at a blank page or screen and couldn’t will a noun or verb to the front of my brain, much less a simple declarative sentence.

In the early days, before I planted a flag on the territory known as “writer,” I could just walk away and say, that’s proof I don’t have what it takes. I’d go watch whatever the equivalent of cat videos was back then.

Not when editors and deadlines loom.

So you figure out a workaround, or that’s what I apparently did.

Until last night when I had to eat a huge bowl of my words for dinner. Those labeled, “I don’t suffer from writing block.”

I had decided to try a different tack and write a new kind of story, at least for me.

I started off with a good opening. After two or three snappy paragraphs, I completely lost traction, and the piece spun out and ground to a halt. Literally, it left rubber all over my living room.

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