Tag: Writing

How ironic. I’m writing a blog post about writer’s block. Writer’s block is pretty common among writers. It’s that feeling you get when you want to write, but your mind just doesn’t have anything in you at a particular moment. You don’t have any creative spark that allows your mind to flow freely. It can be annoying. There are two pieces of writing I am working on at the moment. One of them is a blog post. It’s a comparative essay comparing the anime/manga series “One Piece” to Homer’s “The Odyssey.” I know how I want it to go. I have a brief outline and everything. However, I’m only halfway done with it. It’s an interesting concept for my blog, for sure. I want to write more complex and intricate things on my blog. I want to write short stories, essays, opinion pieces, and whatnot. I even want to eventually try my hand at writing article reviews on here and refuting claims made in articles. However, those are things that I will worry about another time. For now, I want to worry about one thing at a time.

The second thing I’m working on is the novel I want to have published one day. I am not even halfway done with it yet, and it sometimes feels like I get no progress in it. Sometimes, I get a couple of pages done. Other times, I finish maybe a sentence or two. Other times, I may take a hiatus that lasts for weeks, or longer. It sort of just depends on my mood.

I’m not sure why I get writer’s block. I guess it’s because I sometimes need a break? Or maybe it’s because I just get bored with writing at times, just as how I can get bored with video games, movies, music, tv shows, reading, and anime for long periods at a time, then one day, decide to get back into those things? I don’t know. My mind can be somewhat sporadic like that at times. If I had to guess, I think it could be this; convenience. I chose to do what is most convenient for me during my past time. Most of the time, the hobby that I chose to do during my free time most of the time is watch YouTube. It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s convenient, and you have a seemingly endless supply of content to watch, and you can watch it all from the comfort of your own bed. For me to write, or to play video games, or to read, or to listen to music, or to watch TV shows, movies, or anime, I have to actively do something. With video games and writing, I have to physically sit up and play video games or write, respectively. To read, my eyes have to actively follow along while reading. When listening to music, or watching TV shows, movies, or anime, I have to search up what I want to watch a lot of the time. When it comes to YouTube, however, all I have to do is go to “recommended” or “recently uploaded” on the YouTube homepage on my phone or tablet, and I can easily find something I want to watch from there that is curtailed to something I am interested in. And from there, I can go to the “recommended list” on the side of the video once the video is done. From there, I could get lost for hours watching YouTube videos. It could be quite the addiction, sometimes. I want to limit my YouTube usage, though. I want to do more productive things, like read, or write, or learn another language (mainly Spanish), or anything else that is remotely productive, or at the very least different than what I normally do when I do have free time! Sometimes, however, it is a lot easier to just sit back and watch YouTube for the day or evening.