I should be quarantined for writer's block.This week, the topic we discussed that really hit me was writing in ‘your niche’ (which is ironic, since Shoenborn only said about 2 sentences about it). When writing, it’s imperative to be in a good place and mentality, and to be comfortable. This is when your ideas are best, your words most eloquent, and your writing most flowing. However sometimes, even when I’ve met all this criterion, the words just refuse come (we talked about this too). I’m certain every writer will agree with me when I say it’s probably the most aggravating feeling on Earth- knowing what I want to say but not being able to express it. For me, this occurred in its entirety during our PoW on Tennyson’s poem The Eagle. I wrote the introduction well, but when it came to the analysis I had absolutely zero to say. My concern peaked when I looked around at my desk neighbors and saw they all had at least 2 strong paragraphs. In that instance on Friday, I appreciated just how stressful writing could be. I used to think it was always easy, and with good reason, because it was always easy! I always wrote about things that I wanted to write about, agreed with, or at least could appropriately fit my opinion in somehow. This class has required me to write about things that I don’t agree with or see reasoning in. Therefore, I couldn’t think of anything to say about the poem that didn’t sound ridiculous- I didn’t think it was possible or beneficiary to analyze it further than we already had.
Nevertheless, I always enjoy a writing challenge. It is hard for me to try and develop opinions worthy noting based on topics I find useless, especially on the spot. But I’ll do my absolute best until I get better - from my understanding of this course it seems that’s the moral. And with any luck, someday those topics won’t seem so useless anymore. This site describes my condition pretty accurately and seems a good place to start. goinswriter.com/how-to-overcome-writers-block/
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