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what?
I decided to experiment with my writers block today and sat down and wrote a piece based on how it feels trying to force yourself to write through writers block. Everything I wrote is how I felt while trying this and it was written in real time. I wonder if anyone else feels like this when they can't get the words out?
I couldn't write a thing today
my writers block is chronic
My mind shut down and everything failed
And even as I write this now it feels forced and stale
I cant catalog my words to the point of perfection
But as anyone of you who has read my work knows this isn't really a change in direction
So I decided that it would be fun
To force this experience then explain how its done
But as my fingers creep to the board
and my mind opens it rusty young doors
the only word that I can find
In the tiny crevices of my mind
What?....
Its the start of a sentence so surely there's more
thats just the light through the key hole of the door
And now its a fight I can win, so I'm pushing and pulling to find my way in
And as I squeeze and I flex and I give everything
I remember what writing is
Not something hard to be forced with a fist
So ill leave it at 4 syllables instead of four lines
In due time
I couldn't write a thing today
my writers block is chronic
My mind shut down and everything failed
And even as I write this now it feels forced and stale
I cant catalog my words to the point of perfection
But as anyone of you who has read my work knows this isn't really a change in direction
So I decided that it would be fun
To force this experience then explain how its done
But as my fingers creep to the board
and my mind opens it rusty young doors
the only word that I can find
In the tiny crevices of my mind
What?....
Its the start of a sentence so surely there's more
thats just the light through the key hole of the door
And now its a fight I can win, so I'm pushing and pulling to find my way in
And as I squeeze and I flex and I give everything
I remember what writing is
Not something hard to be forced with a fist
So ill leave it at 4 syllables instead of four lines
In due time
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