Writer’s block is REAL.
This has been of the most arguable quote in the world of writing. It is a big part of the more generic phenomenon called a creative block. However, it’s been discussed a lot for ages. Even great poets/authors didn’t have a similar perspective on this. Rumaan Alam considers it as fiction, while Ernest Hemingway and Mark twain have acknowledged writer’s block and have also given some solutions to prevent writer’s block.
Personally, I am on the side which acknowledges writer’s block as a problem r than ignore it. One of the most common arguments I’ve heard is that “The writer has a normal job like a plumber or a sportsperson. You’ve never heard a plumber saying I’m not in the mood of plumbing or a sportsperson saying I am not in the zone.”
It would be erroneous to deny that there are bad days and good days at a job. But, writing is a very personal and non-linear job. As a sportsperson, even though I know that I am having a bad day, I’ll shoot the ball to see if it hits the goal post. But in writing, the delay between the output and input is alarmingly less. You think of a sentence in your mind, and in milliseconds you get the output by your mind, that it is a shitty sentence. The difference in the delay between the input and output in those professions is the difference between a bad day and a writer’s block.
