How to write when you really can’t.
Disclaimer: You might find this stupid. Please consider reading something else. Also, this might work for any form of the creative process.
Remember: When you feel like you must, but you can’t, by all means, WRITE.
You have to understand, it’s the process of writing (or typing, rather?).
Just like now, I wanted to write, but I didn’t know what to, so I decided to write something that could help anyone who’s not really able to.
Ironically, I think the “writer’s block” doesn’t occur as often for the actual writers, but more often for so-called wannabe “writers” who try and write twice or thrice in a year. (no, I’m not one among them, I try FOUR times at least okay!)
Now the internet is filled with cures for a “writer’s block”, and I have nothing magical to share.
Before you think it’s not really me, but my mental anxiety that’s doing all this and since I need to deny the fact, let me do that by bringing to your kind attention that I’m about to share something which works for me incredibly, every single time.
If you haven’t already figured it out by the unusually long last sentence, let me hereby truly and publicly acknowledge my technique — to write even if it doesn’t make any sense at all. (Now it’s all making sense, eh?)
Now, let me explain. It’s process and acknowledgment. You must admit and understand that it’s not humanly possible to be at your ultimate best forever. You may not always have the best of the ideas to write or create which is natural. You can absolutely build a routine to make you the most creative person you know, it’s very much possible, but you’ll still have days when you just cannot be. Only when you acknowledge this fact can you truly work towards being the best.
Then it’s the process of writing. You see I haven’t made a lot of sense in many parts of this writeup. That to me is incredibly OK. What I’m trying to do is condition my brain(and body) to the act of writing. When I began, I had no thoughts, but here I am. It’s just like working out. You don’t want to go to the gym the very second day you join, but you have to anyway. You slowly learn that pain is inevitable and find ways to deal with it.
This is what I do, I just begin. I don’t always end, in fact, I don’t most of the times but I make sure I begin.
I think this may also work for anyone who’s trying to create. Painters, musicians, designers, anyone. We all start with a blank canvas and it’s our responsibility to do something with it, anything because it doesn’t always have to make sense.
So hey, let this be the nudge, and may you keep creating.
