Thursday, December 9, 2010

Writer's Block

It could be your worst enemy, or your best friend. But all-in-all, as a writer always meets up with writer's block. For creative writing, I had to write a short story. It is by far one of the most fun, yet difficult assignments I have had in my entire high school career. Writing my short story was easy to start off, but ending the story is hard. I had to tie up all the endings to the problems in my story and I had to work on coming to a final conclusion. While I liked writing this story, I had many problems--like writer's block. Boy, that was my worst enemy. I tried to force a story out of myself, but after repeatedly writing the same scene in different words I gave up. Letting my mind breathe, and letting the story take a break. 
After a few days, I came back to the story. The short hiatus helped. After taking a break for two days, I was able to plow through the rest of my short story. Tonight I finished my story, and--yes, I know Teach, I am not a novel writer--but all I have to say is thank God I am done. Writer's block, in turn, started off being my enemy, but yet in the end helped to me finish my fifteen page short story. (Oxymoron?)

1 comment:

  1. Nice, got to admit, writing block is terrible. Can't wait to read your short story though!

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