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I Overcame Over 9 Months of Writer’s Block. Here Is How I Did It
Now, I am an unstoppable small god
At the beginning of this year (2020), I created a new year’s resolution to write more. I planned to take action on the said resolution by writing and publishing at least one story on Medium every week. On the 21st of September this year, I published my first story on Medium. The last story I had published had been in November last year. Until last week (when I wrote my second story this year), I hadn’t been able to write again. I was unable to write; Nay, I was scared to write.
I was scared that I couldn’t go through with it, that I wasn’t worthy — whatever that means; that I just wasn’t cut out for the task at hand.
It’s not that I didn’t try to write. I tried to write on so many occasions. I had so many ideas to work on, but every time the mere thought of writing popped into my mind, I choked. It’s like I was suffocating under the weight of an impossible expectation — my own expectation. Writing a story — any story — slowly became an unattainable goal.
Sometimes I got up and started to put a few sentences down only to flee at the first experience of the smallest of obstacles. I couldn’t stay long enough to let my sentences out. To me, the writing process was one big prolonged panic attack. I was…
