I sit staring at the computer screen not knowing what to write. This is my first experience of writer’s block and I do not like it. My mind is as blank as the screen and as dumb as the pointer. Nothing makes sense and the words I try to type don’t connect coherently. My thoughts are random and pointless. It feels as if someone has inflated a balloon inside my head and all my thoughts are stuck behind it, unable to penetrate or go around the rubber wall.
I have read enough articles about writer’s block to recognize the symptoms, and not so long ago I even scoffed, inwardly of course, that it would never happen to me. I would always have something to write about I boasted to myself. But now, after several wordless weeks have passed and my screen is still blank, I have to admit the worst has happened. I scratch my head and every other place that is scratchable but nothing helps and I tug my spectacles from my face in frustration. I might as well pack up and do something else I think to myself.
