Saturday, March 2, 2013

Writer's block- Liesl


I look around my room, desperately hoping for something to give me inspiration. It is the second to last day of vacation, the second to last day of freedom before school crushes down on us. Bleak light floats in through the four large windows. Outside, there is nothing to write about. My room is drab, nothing exiting, and the hundred and twenty three books all neatly lined up on the shelves do not have their usual charm. What was the prompt again? Life is good. Okay. I sit down at the computer screen and start to write.

 Staring out at the calm blue water and the New York City skyline with the sun on my back, feeling the heat through my light jacket I sigh…

 No, no, too cliché. I delete the entire line. Ummmm....
 
            The only times that I have really been happy are when I am home with my cousins and family, or alone in the woods…

            No. No way. Where did that come from? Backspace. I hate writer’s block. Whenever I am not writing, ideas swirl around in my head, stories, not fully formed, poems bursting with light and color, but then I sit down at the computer to try and put my ideas on paper, the fountain of ideas slows to barely a trickle and I can’t remember anything that I have been dreaming about.

            Outside, the sun peaks through the clouds, illuminating the worn out carpet with a ray of golden light…

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