Creative Blocks Are The Best!

Summary

The article suggests that embracing and engaging with creative blocks can lead to a surge of new ideas and inspiration for writers.

Abstract

The article "Creative Blocks Are The Best!" explores the concept of creative blocks as a challenging yet surmountable aspect of a writer's life. It compares the experience of writer's block to an existential crisis, akin to Superman encountering Kryptonite. However, the author argues that these blocks should not be feared but rather seen as an opportunity for growth and creativity. By engaging deeply with an object and utilizing all senses, a writer can ignite their imagination and overcome the block. The author provides a personal anecdote of using an apple as a focal point to generate three distinct writing ideas, demonstrating the effectiveness of this approach. The article encourages writers to view creative blocks as a chance to reach new heights of observation and expression, ultimately enriching their work.

Opinions

Creative blocks are likened to an existential crisis for writers, akin to drowning or facing a dire setback.
The author believes that creative blocks are not permanent obstacles but rather challenges that can be overcome with the right approach.
Engaging with an object using all senses can help stimulate the brain and generate new connections, leading to creative breakthroughs.
The author emphasizes the importance of observation and sensory engagement in overcoming writer's block, suggesting it as a key to unlocking new ideas.
The article suggests that the struggle with creative blocks can lead to a greater appreciation for the writing process and a more profound sense of accomplishment.
The author leaves readers with a strategy for combating writer's block, advocating for the selection of an "object of inspiration" to kickstart the creative process.

Creative Blocks Are The Best!

The best way out is always through. ― Robert Frost

We as writers have the ability to create as a part of our core identity. Writing is like breathing to us. That is why we fear creative blocks, it is as fear-inducing as drowning into an endless abyss. It is Kryptonite for us, Supermen, all our strength and sense of purpose just goes away. It is quite a dire existential crisis if nothing else.

The good and the bad, the yin and the yang, the calm and the storm, on the good days, we write and sleep merrily, on the bad, we face-off with blocks as high as Mt. Everest and despair at the humungous setback we are facing. Usually, we wait for it to go away like it is a cold we have contracted.

This is War

Our writer brain is quite like a humungous library with the smell of old books wading through throughout. It is quite peaceful. Our brain in actuality is also like a library with billions and billions of books and they are connected with each other. You start reading one book and then, before you know it you are reading another, you get wouldn’t have normally if not this beautiful densely connected 1.4 kg walnut-alike brain.

Remember in art class, the teacher used to come and keep an object on the table. Lo and behold, the gruelling of getting the shape and the shadows right. I never liked art class, as much (if you loved, I am quite happy for you). We will also do this. But why?

Let’s understand something about our brains. The more keenly we use our senses, the more it fires up and generating connections we would not have normally. So, here’s what you do the next time, you have a creative block, choose one thing (I chose an apple), engage with it, look at it, better yet, close your eyes and touch it, feel the contours on the surface of the object, relish in the texture of the surface, the point is to just focus on it. Once you have engaged to your heart’s content, then, start thinking about you can take this object and write something about it. I like to write a lot of self-help. So, just after I did this, the magic happened. I just got three ideas the moment I started thinking about the apple and how to relate it with self-help.

Eat The Apple Of Positivity Every Day To Keep The Doctor Of Despair Away.

The Good Part of the Apple Comes After You Struggle Through Its Skin, Hustle and Then, Reap the Awards.

Your Next Big Idea Is Hidden in Your Present Idea, Just Like the Seeds in an Apple; Explore the Full Depth of Your Idea to Discover It.

Just like that one second, I was quite desperate about my creative block and then, I had so many I was ambivalent with which to work with? As writers, we want to reach the acme of observation and craft it into perfect cocktails of the words for the reader’s delight. When you use our senses to the fullest, the magic is triggered; when we find a way even in the face despair, that’s the basis of human survival. So, survive, thrive, and write scores of things which makes your heart flutter every day. From today, I leave you with a nuke to destroy the hell out of the next creative block you get. Choose an object of inspiration, the chalice of ideas and work on it and feel the writer’s block go away.