Christine Giovannelli

Creative Block

I love to write. It's something that has come naturally since I was younger. Now my spelling is shit, and I can't say my grammar is perfect, but when you enjoy getting the thoughts out of your head it really doesn't matter (well maybe not that people are reading it, but whatever judge if you must). I never really had a "writing style" or a niche. Usually it was just random words that came to my mind that I needed to get out or made up lyrics to songs that had already been written. I'm the type of person that would rather text then speak over the phone, because when put on the spot, I freeze or say something stupid or wrong. When I write it comes out naturally, like I'm not even thinking and that my fingers just type (shout out to technology because my handwriting isn't any better then my spelling). For the last few years I've walked away from writing, besides the occasional thing for work or text messages. The last few months have not been easy-breezy for me and I found my desire to write come back, but this time was different. I had all these ideas in my head, ideas that I wanted to get out, that would wake me up in the middle of the night, but when I would go to write nothing came out. I would stare at the blank page, blank word document and nothing. It was like my brain forgot how to form sentences, like I couldn't get anything out. This went on for weeks. I felt like I was losing my mind, any time I did feel motivated to write, I would get easily distracted, instagram, work emails, oooo shiny object. If your feeling "blocked" like me, take a look at these steps that helped me get my writing on...