[kort verhaal (engels geschreven)] Writer's Block

[dreadlocks]

I pulled another drag from my cigarette as I stroled back and forth through my room. There was a white sheet of paper in my typewriter. I looked at it in my short stop, pulling another drag from my cigarette, letting the smoke take over my lungs. I didn't get it. How could it be I had all these great idea's the night before, and now that I finally got to actually writing them down, they got locked up somewhere inside my brain and wouldn't dare to escape. It was a frustating happening. I had it every one or two years. Writer's block. That is the worst nightmare of a writer. The day you are unable to get words onto paper. Friends of mine, also writers, had this before. But not for one day, one week, or a month. No they had writers block for years. It killed them. I was afraid I would end up like them, slightly insane, staring at that white sheet of paper, held by my typewriter.

The end of my cigarette came near. I took one last drag, and killed it in the ashtray that stood on my desk. I sighed and decided to just sit down and stare at the paper. Perhaps words would magically appear. And so I did. I sat there. For minutes. And minutes became hours. And yet nothing. Ocassionally two or three words would go through my mind, and then....nothing. My mind just went blank. I started thinking about what to cook that night, if I had enough cigarettes, that the dog need to be walked, I needed to pay my phonebill and do my laundry.

And then it just hit me. There was so much to write about, but my mind just couldn't, because I hadn't figured it out all completely. Maybe that time wasn't meant for fiction, but for the more realistic things in life, things that really happen. That is what I should write about.

And this, was just the start. Now, I think it's time for yet another cigarette.

[Aurora]

Hi there

Leuk geschreven, ik hou wel van Engelse verhaaltjes. Leest lekker weg en het onderwerp is ook leuk (I know the feeling by the way!!)

En het is trouwens ideas zonder ' En strolled met 2 l-en.