When There’s Nothing to Write About

Writers write because they have something to write about. They write because they know something, they want to share something, they felt a different surge of affection and extremities of emotions. They write because they are idealitic and vocal about their principles and opinions. But, what if there’s nothing to write about? How do writers write? What do witers write? Where do they get inspiration and do they ever get some in the midst of the writer’s biggest dilemma known as writer’s block?

When there’s nothing to write about, a writer writes something from her nothingness. She writes about not having the idea to write about. She looks at the clock that already strikes 3 in the morning and then she writes out of her mental blockness. She looks at her desk, shifts on her seat from right to left and stares at her paper. She plays with her 0.5-lead point black sign pen and marks the paper with different zig-zag and curve dooddles that tell about her tough and flamboyant personality. She fills the entire two pages with her bold and romanticist signature. She draws fangs on her favorite celebrity’s face and ends it with two horns on the head. She gives a sigh of boredom stands up and shakes her hip left and then right. Then she suddenly stops, sits back down and writes about these things. She’s a writer.

When there’s nothing to write about, a writer closes his eyes and heaves a sigh of relief, suggesting exhaustion or boredom. He plays with his keyboard, types “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” on the Word Document in more than three lines and deletes it afterward. He listens and hums with the song of the Unchained Melody and then suddenly clicks “stop” and hits “play” on the Red Hot Chili Pepper’s The Zephyr Song. He turns on the volume towards its maximum level. He moves his head in time with the lively beat of the song and taps his computer desk lightly. He twists his chair away from the computer screen and the key  board and then back on the tapping the desk. He suddenly stops, then write about it. He’s a writer.

When there’s nothing to write about, writers simply retreat to their own sweet lair of comfort and become what they really are and when they are safe in their own world, they just write anything about it!

To know more about the writer, you may check more of her creative writings at www.simplymetyra.blogspot.com and www.iteachlife.blogspot.com.