Space Out – a Writer’s Peculiar Problem

I’m a writer. But there are times when I find myself staring at my computer or my writer’s notebook for hours and hours – trying to come up with sensible things to write about. I guess, at one point or another, that’s a problem shared by most writers. 

Although I have been in this field for quite sometime, there are crazy moments when I still find trouble gathering my thoughts in order to produce something coherent and worthy of publishing that’s geared for a certain audience of a designated market. 

It’s Not a Matter of Having No Ideas to Write

Ideas? Oh, I have lots of them. Thing is, sometimes I get caught up in all of them that I find myself in a deep mess trying to write everything all at once.

Some say it’s called, “start-up fatigue.” I guess, I have to be thankful that it actually has a name! What a simple term to describe an infuriating situation which makes you feel like an inadequate fool who is not that confident of the task before you just when you needed to be at your shining best. 

Hey, it is REAL! It happens most of the time WHEN you least expect it. It happens to beginners and even to the more accomplished writers. 

It can be frustrating. Really!

Relax to Recharge and Attack the Task Again

A friend of mine told me to relax – as if that would help. 

Relax? Would that recharge my mental batteries?

What about those ideas that are born every millisecond of every moment, rattling in my head, and waiting to scream its essence on the computer screen or on the pages of my writer’s notebook? What about my self-imposed deadlines in this freelance writing business of mine? What about those dreams of being financially stable in this type of work? 

Stressed? Who? Me? Okay, I’ll admit. Perhaps. Sometimes. 

But you see, ever since I learned how to write and spell in grade school, the writing bug has never left me. And, ever since that time, there would be trying moments when I would stare blankly at a paper or a computer document for hours. And it would just stay there – ghostly blank – devoid of my musings. 

I have to get rid of this start-up fatigue – FAST! 

Perhaps, I need to relax as my bestfriend told me to do so. Maybe, I would be free of this quandary. Maybe. Well, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for this one.