Writing, Writers, and Blocks That They Have

Writer's Block.

Is it really such a bad thing? It scares all of us as we suppose we can't think of anything to write about. But if you really think about it, Writer's Block might just be a blessing.

We all have experienced that time when we have no idea what to write about and we start randomly rambling and feel very stupid. But the human mind is a wonderfully strange thing and it eventually finds you something to write about. And most of the time, these random ramblings turn out to be quite good.

So what am I doing now? Trying to randomly ramble? Maybe. I am aimless and I love this aimlessness.

There is a certain vanity in writing. Who do we create blogs for? Ourselves, of course. Now if you say that we create blogs to entertain other people and find our faults, again, it is a selfish motive. Which is absolutely fine. As there is a vanity in writing.

Who is a writer? Someone who must be confident of themselves. Otherwise, why would one publish books or publicly post their writings on the Internet if they did not have some kind of confidence in their writing?

But then what would I know of writers? Writing is one of those things that cannot be explained, something that everyone has an opinion about, but also something that everyone is clueless about. Like Love.

Love and Writing are very closely connected. And that's what makes it so wonderful. Everyone, through any kind of writing, can experience Love and it's quite simple and that is, again, what makes it so wonderful.

Writing not only allows us to portray our feelings, but also feelings that no-one around has felt before. It allows us to imagine Utopian eras or worlds of chaos, taking us away from the petty problems of Life. It is something that leaves a sense of fulfilment, no matter how good or bad you feel you have written.

Diaries. They can be of so many kinds. Diaries with accounts of the day, diaries with lyrics of songs, diaries with drawings, diaries with poems, diaries with stories, diaries with fantasies and dreams, diaries with dates and telephone numbers.... These also help to find that sense of fulfilment, no matter what has been scribbled, scrawled, written, typed or drawn in them.

Letters. Sure, we have the e-mail now. But writing a letter to someone, on paper, makes it even more exciting for so many reasons. You don't know when the other person will receive it, you don't know when you will get a reply, you appreciate the distance between the two of you even more as you wait in anticipation for your reply, the happiness you feel when you finally get a reply. Try writing a letter, sometime, rather than a quick e-mail. You'll notice the difference.

Writing is a wonderful thing, so cherish everything you write, and be sure to save it, so that you can read it again. And don't be ashamed of innocent kiddish writings, they are what made you improve in the first place.

And another thing, my absence for so long has not been the effect of writer's block, it was actually SHAME. I was ashamed of my writing skills, which I temporarily supposed I didn't have. Not anymore, though. And it only seemed fitting to come back with a post about Writing.