WRITER'S BLOCK!!

The night before the definition essay was due, I was all jacked up to start writing. I thought my first sentence was killer, but after that, I hit a block. At that point I realized that I just hit any writer's worst fear and enemy--writer's block.

I didn't get it. My ideas were so sharp and motivated that writer's block was expected to be nonexistent. It was almost like I was running, I started out great and then I trip over my shoelaces and biff it. What can be more frustrating in the writing world other than writer's block?!

I picked myself up from my nasty fall and I grudgingly started to limp toward the finish. Normally I can start running again, but this time I must have pulled something because the rest of my essay was weak. There was almost no direction to where my paragraphs were going. I repeated the same word multiple times where I could have easily used a synonym. My lead sentences set up the rest of the paragraph for solid gold, but instead I wrote a bunch of bull in order to finish.

Luckily I didn't run into writer's block when I was doing my final draft. It was a little difficult picking up the slack of my last draft, but I think that it turned out to be infinitely better.

Further down the road we'll run into writer's block again and again. When we fall, we have to get back up. Ultimately it comes down to how many pieces of the puzzle we can pick up and persevere through a writer's worst enemy--writer's block.