Got a Writer’s Block? Read.

I don't think writers experience loss of ideas when they get writer's block. I believe that writer's block only happens when we run out of words to express what we have in mind. Sometimes, ideas are overwhelming. As a result, we find it hard to use the right words to accurately unleash what we intend to write. Some writers enter a loop of typing, deleting, staring at a blank screen, sighing heavily, typing again, hitting backspace so hard, so on, and so forth. Until we arrive to the point when we hate ourselves for not doing well.

Maybe, all we need sometimes is a change of perspective. Or a big break. Perhaps, when suffering a writer's block, reading the work of other writers help. Maybe the answers we seek for are written in other's work. Lose yourself in a different universe. Live in an entirely different world. Even for a while. 

I believe all writers have an invisible connection. We write for readers to read. And we read because of the talented writers. Maybe losing ourselves in an unfamiliar way of writing will keep us on track once we return to being ourselves again. And that is of course being a writer. A writer then, a writer still, and a writer always--despite the occasional blocks.

Kudos to all the writers here in Prose!