The slow moving fog has settled over the land, and it’s leaving the memories of writing creatives completely dissipated. It’s the fog that says: “What level of literary creativity do you wield?” The voice of the almighty shutters the window panes as it asks: “Do you have the ability to make a new TV series that has the appeal of a confessional sitcom, and yields at least 10 seasons?” Seriously though, let’s look into writer’s block. Let’s ask ourselves, how do we avoid this? “There’s so many great writers among you, so let’s make sure it doesn’t happen to you!”
I’ll give you few pointers, but I’ll also limit some of my style so you don’t jock anything I’ve written. Sorta like that: elipses; elipses; elipses; jock. Decipher the word: jock. Whip out your mental thesaurus, or your urban dictionary, for terms from the ‘90s. I was born in the ‘80s, so ‘90s slang is prevalent in some of my writing. “Dude if you jock me, I’m calling you out.” Those phrases we used a long time ago, but they are fun to intertwine into modern stuff. I used a semi jock technique with the elipses; but it’s important to note I didn’t use actual elipses. I didn’t jock, I swear I didn’t; a ex of mine used to use the actual elipses. I thought it would be cute to write them out.
Next I’ll refer to the colon, and the semicolon I used a bit ago. Learning punctuation is essential. I began using the colon back in college when I had to list numbers or ratios for certain metrics, so, math class. So it looks like: 15: 30, and it sounds like: fifteen out of thirty. Moving on to the semicolon. This one is really awesome if you speak with an accent, or broken English. This locks in certain sentence structures from your native tongue, and prevents run-on sentences. Use only when restructuring; and, I guess, from the initial structuring: all those punctuations control the flow of the article, novel, graphic novel, etc. So you may be wondering why I brought up punctuation and some terminology for the defeating conduits of creative block. That leads all to this big moment! Wait for it! That’s right, you got it! Just start writing. Anything dammit, just start! It doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong.
