This is an attempt towards my own courageous undertaking of freeing Creatives from their own grips of indecision (an excerpt from the Facebook group: Almost like poetry).
There has long since been a discussion among Humans™ surrounding the difficulty of initiating enough momentum to begin “The Writing Process.”
For the duration of this collective conversation, a commonality has emerged, converging individual opinions with the attributes of an actual blockade, or a barrier, that the teemingly passionate struggle to surmount and surpass.
Just as we can all agree this analogy is simply a metaphor unifying the shared experience of difficulty to remedy our hesitance, we can also agree that this “Writing Block” is not like a closed road, imposed by some elected, authoritarian official with intent to serve and protect. It’s not caution tape used to segregate some unauthorized territory, nor is it like a vicious brigade of pirates taking pleasure in gatekeeping buried treasure.
No real block actually exists, save the self-imposed block of behavior modifications we insist on instituting, based on our crude understanding of society’s expectations of us.
Unexpectedly, “The Writing Process” truly begins with an exercise in understanding one’s “self.” Setting aside the tools used for scribe, it’s prudent to address how one perceives the expectations of society and how heavily they allow those collective opinions to direct ones choices and voice.
There are many rules society as a whole has agreed upon, beneficially indoctrinated and imposed with expectations for us to follow, like obeying health codes in the LDR rooms of a hospital, but it’s important not to adopt this motif of standard setting for curating one’s own personality and voice. The hesitance that surfaces when attempting to form our own expression is a misconception of the need for our peers acceptance or the fear of facing consequences if they don’t approve of what they read.
Many creatives well know the soul-groaning urge to surface and purge a product of weight and worth. Unlike a woman’s pangs pre-birth, where epidurals and cesareans are used to ensure the product produced is perfectly unscathed and unbruised, you don’t need to preserve your works potential by preventing it from possibly being birthed with abnormalities.
These procedures for health are great for the sake of saving babies and mothers, but the works of silent dictation laid on a blank page can be born unformed or misshapen, placed in a draw, and forgotten. There is no pressure to account for the words you bring into this world.
They may stay locked away for many years, laying untouched for nobody to see, but with your subconscious continually surveying the landscape for a piece of inspiration to complete the thought, you’ll eventually pull that dusty page free, breath upon it some fresh perspective, and watch the work miraculously take its first breathe. The years between creation and full animation is of no consequence and is a process only seen by the creator.
Be fearless when venturing to speak your voice, and courageous enough to antecede perfection. This life is nothing but a small collection of seconds, each measuring reflected light off atmospheric particles with different absorptions being directed through your iris. Realizing the miraculous facet of your own occurrence in time is enough meaning you will ever need to justify your own writing craft.
So, if you want to write and feel the pain of creation rise up and inspire you to sit and think, realize your own value to decide what is worth saying and know it’s enough to make a mistake or form something incomplete. Stop letting the expectations and responses of society guide your voice. Remove the block from your mind’s eye, envision something precious, and write the following:
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