Writer’s Block

A long time ago, I attended a micro tale writing workshop where we discussed writer’s block. Hoping it would solve problems for writers attending the workshop. Every writer has their shortcomings and creative blockage when it comes to creating content. I wish the writer’s life would be easy as it has been portraying. Matt Haig, the author of Midnight Library, has posted a picture of a blank page. He has mentioned in the post about his stress whenever he sat to write. Matt stated stressed feeling maybe due to the success of Midnight Library. I could relate to him when he showed us his blank page on the screen. I posted a similar picture ages ago when I promised myself to write every day. Well, I failed to stick to my writing schedule. All I do today is write work emails or post content related to pharma.
I suffer to pen down a page or even read without distraction. It is becoming a cumbersome process to cope up with the creative block. I have read various articles on writer’s block, hoping that it would solve my problems. All I need is fresh air to help my creative juices flow again. I planned to work on my manuscript, being inspired by authors who have published books after the pandemic. Well, we are still in a pandemic, and yet another year passes. I am sad by the fact that I have been unproductive in my writer life. I may have been productive in my professional life. But I failed to do justice to my first published book or myself, whose pre-occupied with stories but no words to bring those to life. I was reading a non-fiction book on the India-Pakistan Partition. I couldn’t hold my emotions, each paragraph filled with the blood and flesh of a writer. Aanchal Malhotra, the author of Remnants of Separation, has written a book breaking every record in the literary world. The book has been translated even into French to bring attention to the masses. I wish to be that author one day. I don’t know if I would ever be able to fulfill my dream of being a person who has done justice to her imaginative power. I have struggled to pen down this blog after months of holding back. I am not sure how people have worked with non-fiction books holding enormous facts. I have fallen short of words in my own stories. I have trashed stories that I have written in the past few months. I hope the rest of the year shows some mercy on my writer persona. I hope to find words that would bring my story to life. I hope one last time to start engines in my brain to manufacture a magic potion of creativity. I hope to end writer’s block one fine day and let the sunshine.