Dani's Writing Journey

I have been “cursed” with writers block. No amount of poetry prompts, free writing sessions, or reading seems to spark my creativity. Despite my urge to write, to do the one thing I love to do, nothing seems to want to flow from my brain to the page. A large part of this, I believe, is because I’m experiencing burnout. Between working eight (8) hours a day/five (5) days a week, trying to workout to keep myself health (mentally and physically) and taking classes online to get my masters, I have little time to relax. Its exhausting! I know the easy answer would be to take some time off of school since I can’t quit working (I need some form of income in order to survive), but it isn’t the school work keeping my creativity from flowing, especially since I am studying creative writing. Maybe I’m too stubborn, but I’m so close to graduating that taking some time off would just push my graduation date and would only keep me feeling more stress.

When I’m stressed or feeling burned out, I will doom scroll through Instagram reels. Sure some of the videos are super creative or informative (when the information in the video is correct), but it definitely blocks my creativity. Well, maybe it doesn’t block it rather than I get too distracted watching short videos that I lose track of time. It’s hard to write poetry when I’m losing tract of time watching funny videos online.