Writer's Block Cure #3: No Cure This Month

By Geo Holms

I can’t think of anything to write for an article this time. When I wrote the first ‘writer’s block cure’, I figured that I would be able to come up with a series of these articles with no problem. There’s rarely a time when I'm sitting at my notebook and don’t have a clue of what to write. But this is the keyboard, isn’t it?

Why can't I think of anything to write right now? There are ideas bouncing in my head, many possibilities, yet not one of them is detailed enough to be an actual tip that an average ‘zine reader would be able to follow.

This isn't supposed to happen. You’re reading this and shaking your head right now at this series of disjointed paragraphs without a hinge of transition or sense between them. If you were searching in vain to discover a cure for writer's block and you only came upon this pointless article, I apologize profusely.

Everything I know has eluded me, all of the plans I've had for this article. I almost think that my conscience is taunting me at the moment by holding back my creative drive to write this. Why does my conscience do that? Is it trying to tell me some cryptic message through this that I’m too ignorant to overlook?

Probably not…

Yet, I couldn’t just abandon Yn Nor and leave a space in the webzine. That overwhelming guilt would swallow me and not spit me out until Thanksgiving. No, I was determined to get something for this article and nothing was going to stop me.

I kept realizing that I had nothing to write until I exclaimed my frustrations to the world. That exclamation was answered by a question from an innocent bystander. “You have writer’s block on creating a writer’s block cure?”

That caused an idea to hit me. I remembered that simple and failsafe writer's block cure tip that I'd used many times before—it would be prefect for this article…

Get comfortable (including snacks and such), and have a fresh page and a pen/pencil ready. Finally, write out your frustrations of having writer's block.

That's it, a simple writer’s block cure AND an example. I bet I tricked you into thinking that I had nothing to contribute (probably not, but I can dream, can’t I?).

And at this point, I have an idea for next month...

Maybe.