Essay On Becoming A Writer's Block

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I am staring at the screen with the paragraphs that I have written for my story, but everything sounds wrong. No sentences flow together. No words are properly chosen. No real connection to what I have expressed onto the paper. I have encountered this situation too many times, yet it is always a comfortable affliction.
Writing stories brings forth my personality because I could see myself in the characters. I get to immerse myself into a fantasy world that I have created and it can never be far-fetched. As a writer, I only see the paper as a blank page that needs to be filled because there are no limitations, this is true freedom. If something needs to be said, it will be said.. It always brings me great joy to be able to convey my thoughts
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Once I am writing I can not stop until I can express all of my ideas onto paper and I am satisfied with how it sounds. I do feel exhausted at times when I have writer’s block, but I do get an inner happiness when I complete a writing piece. In the cases of having writer’s block, it does take a toll on me because my frustration intensifies the longer I take on writing a “masterpiece” as I call it because I have standards for myself. I take great pride in making sure each word is the best fit in my writing which is one of the main reasons for my frustrations. One thing I refuse to do to myself is to force myself to write when I have no spark because then I will lose motivation. Once I am ready to write I will spend hours perfecting the writing, and it is especially not rare to see me spending hours on one page. When I write stories it takes time and effort to be meticulous about details, making sure it flows, as well as taking reader’s emotions into consideration.
Writing stories or writing in general has always been important in my life because it is another way for me to express myself when I can not through spoken words. Writing stories gives me a world that I could manipulate and create something up to my standards. Writing stories lets me be able to live another life through my characters. Writing stories is a loving pain, but beauty takes time. As I say, I am a storyteller through written

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