Writers Block

Oh well, maybe this blog will be of no value because of what is said in the title. Or maybe it has sense if my mind will cooperate with this making-a-sense out of non sense endeavor that my mind is currently under.
It is defined in wikipedia (the not so credible but still the most sought after source) that a writer's block "is a condition, associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task in hand. At the other extreme, some "blocked" writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers. It can manifest as the affected writer viewing their work as inferior or unsuitable, when in fact it could be the opposite." there you go with the cut and paste definition...

Anyway, thinking about it, I had, in my younger years and even now, started many stories and fragments of what is supposed to be a song, that was never finished. I still think of them, as though they're an unfinished business (well, they actually are) that I need to attend to. Some of the manuscripts I have lost, but many are still kept away in my room, yellowed pages gathering dust under the cover of a folder with a print that reads: "Unfinished Business". I have been reading one time of a work I had started, a short story that was meant to be for a short story writing competition in the university (University of the Cordilleras), and man was I "nabitin". I wanted to punch myself for not finishing the story when I still had the idea of the whole story in mind...and that was about 3 years ago. Although I can still finish it, but of course my idea then would still be different from my idea now. At this moment, I could've written a feature article, but instead I facebooked and made this blog (sorry that was random).Well the thing is I am fond of thinking about something, planning about something (as in for a story or stuff)...seeing the end result with positivity, and starting it out but would stop and then think and then rest and then when the urge of merely resting turned into a permanent stop, the idea would fly off and I'm left alone with a hanging story. So what am I getting at? nothing. Just plainly sharing some chopsuey thoughts, you might want to take a bite in this randomness.teehee.

Going back to writer's block well an example I could give you is the Goo goo dolls. They had a nasty break with their former label resulting to the writer's block. But oh well something good came out of their misery cause John Joseph Theodore Rzeznik (Goo Goo Dolls' frontman) was able to pen one of the most famous soundtrack of all time--"Iris", which in my opinion is practically everyone's favorite song (I ultimately adore it too! well I'm a fan). And it became a hit even if Goo Goo Dolls weren't able to produce an album that comes with it. The song first appeared (it was actually written for the movie) in the "City of Angels original soundtrack album" then later was included by Goo goo dolls in their 6th album released in 1998, "Dizzy up the girl"(which has neat sounds too!).

Which proves that a writer's block is not bad at all, it's just that a writer needs to find time to segregate her thoughts or even use the chaos to come up with anything and anything to get her mind going. Who knows, while she is at it, she might end up writing something that is of worth reading and her blank chaotic mind would soon be in order. And I'm telling that to myself. And oh yeah, she may need to sleep too. ^-^ [OE]