Recently, I've been everywhere and nowhere, Coming up with an article each day is so hard and I struggle every day to meet the goal I set for myself. I’ve seen people talk about having writers' block and turning it into an article. But doing that also looks like a herculean task to me. In the last few days, I suffered one of the deepest writers' blocks I’ve ever suffered. Writing an article became hard for me. The stress from travelling to school must have contributed to it and the constant distractions all around.
Easy as it may look to type about one’s personal experience, more like a personal blog, believe me when I say the last time I felt “alive” while typing was when I wrote the article “I can’t write about BCH, how then do I promote it” subsequent articles are written in a haste to beat the time and I don’t get the satisfaction I want. Though I won’t say all of them are bad. Looking back at some, I still find it hard to believe that it came out well. Imagine starting an article with no title in mind and suddenly it starts shaping itself into something meaningful. The biggest battle is always choosing what the title would be. It’s draining and requires a lot of thinking. It might be an easy task for some but for me, it’s very hard. As I said to Jumper22 yesterday, I have some writers I look up to and marvel at how they do some things effortlessly or maybe that’s how I see it.
Suddenly, my engagement here also reduced and I only go around tipping sometimes without dropping comments. I know things can’t continue this way, to remain relevant, consistency is required. After rushing through yesterday’s article. I did a self-reflection and tried to know where things went wrong. What am I wasting time on that’s affecting my rhyme? Is it that I have too much on my plate or I’m not placing my priority right.
Even with my behaviour, it shows. My frustration at not getting things done started showing with the way I relate to people, I easily get annoyed at the slightest provocation, though I still try to be polite as much as possible. After doing my assessment, I realized the source of my problem isn’t far fetched.
The time I spend on Whatsapp and Telegram is getting too much. Though I couldn’t type in some public groups in the last few days due to the ban I was given, I still go about reading various chats and trying to acquire more knowledge on certain things. Whatsapp is another ball game. The different chats and groups I’m on are taking much of my time, though it’s fun chatting with friends and virtual family, it’s affecting other aspects I ought to focus on. After spending a lot of time on these platforms and also attending to various matters. I end the day tired and frustrated.
STRESS
Chatting is my way of relieving stress, it requires no mental gymnastics. Though as a student, working under pressure has to be second nature. But when it comes to writing an article it’s quite different from chatting. Though at some point I do feel like it’s so easy pouring out my mind into words but lately I realized the impact of one’s state of mind on one’s output is huge.
My saving grace is writing about my personal experience, just as I did with my last 5 articles I want to keep my “an article a day challenge alive” but don’t want to lose sleep over it. This is an article intended to help reset everything back to normal. Re-set!
Thanks for Reading!🤗💚🤗
This is a public apology to everyone who has been dropping comments or upvoting my articles for the past few days but I haven't been able to reply to the comments or go through theirs. I've pressed the reset button. Let's start all over.
you still able to come up with an interesting article! While me, I wasn't able to publish an article the other day lol