"Writer's Block"

"Writer's block"-I've been told that there is no such thing. It is merely a mind trick people use on themselves to persuade their own brain that they cannot write at the moment. The phrase itself is interesting because it uses the word block. When I think of a block I think of something that is in the way of where you are headed. It is an obstacle but not a definite dead-end. An obstacle is something you can get over whether you go through it, over it, under it, or around it, it is possible to move on. A dead end means that you are at the end. That there is no further for you to go unless you turn around and go back from where you came. Unlike an obstacle there's is nothing on the other side of the wall. As a writer facing "writer's block" I feel almost a sense of gratitude and relief because I know that I have gotten this far, and I can feel inside of me too much perseverance to just give up now. To those who say "writer's block" is such a bad thing, I protest. Because at least writer's block is just that a block in the path. If I did not have this and I truly could not move on and see no way beyond my current state then I would have a dead-end and that is it. The end of me being a writer. I would have to turn around and go back down the path of life until I came to the crossroads where I chose a career, and choose another. So to have this, "writer's block" is a blessing in disguise. It gives me a sense of reassurance that a writer I am to be.

-GreenGirl

Not lost, just hidden.

   Yes, I know what you guys are all thinking. What's wrong? Has GreenGirl died? Why hasn't she posted anything in forever? Answers I have, if you but read on. In short I have been struggling with finding my voice. Before I came to college I knew exactly who I was, what I intended to become, and what I was doing in life. Then it all became unclear and foggy; suddenly I knew no answers.
   I think it's because when you move away from home to college you are in a whole new atmosphere and start a new life. Basically everything has changed. So when you see something in your life that has not changed you get uneasy and question yourself. Thinking, "Is that right?" "Why it that the same while all else is evolving?" When in reality my writing (which was the part of my life that was not changing) wasn't supposed to change. Because my writing is the very core of me. It is who I am-soul and spirit combined.
   While all other changes can be perceived as natural transformations of me growing up, if my writing were to change drastically that would mean who I am now is not the same as who I thought I was before. I realize now that though time and circumstances can change who I am on the outside and even who I am thought to be on the inside. Way down deep in the very depths of my soul is someone who cannot and will not ever be changed. This is who I truly am. This is my inner writer.

With apology's and more writing to come soon,
GreenGirl