"Non sono in vena!"note
—Rodolfo, La Bohème
I drown in hesitation
My words come crashing down
And all my best creations
Burn into the ground
The thought of starting over
Leaves me paralysed
Tear it out again
Another one that got away
My words come crashing down
And all my best creations
Burn into the ground
The thought of starting over
Leaves me paralysed
Tear it out again
Another one that got away
—Wither, Dream Theater
They woke up in a plain white room. Four walls, a roof and a ceiling — each of equal dimensions, each as blank as a mind with writer's block.
"Sometimes you really have to shove and grunt and sweat. Some days you go to your office and you’re the only one who shows up, none of the characters show up, and you sit there by yourself, feeling like an idiot."
"The bane of our existence: "writer's block." It's your arch-nemesis for life, appearing without warning and inflicting a pain worse than death upon the writer. They sell their souls just to get their muse back."
—Yae Miko, Genshin Impact
You see... What people just don't understand
Is that writing's demanding
It's mentally challenging and it's a bore
It's such a chore
To sit in a room by yourself, oh my god, I just hate it!
And you're trying to find
An opening line or a brilliant idea
And you're pacing the floor
And hoping for just a bit of divine intervention
That one little nugget, that one little spark
Then Eureka! You find it, you're ready to start!
So now you can write, right? Wrong!
You're not even close, you remember that damn it
Your play's gotta be in iambic pentameter!
So you write down a word but it's not the right word
So you try a new word but you HATE the new word
And you need a good word but you can't find the word
Oh where is it, what is it, what is it, where is it?!
Blah-blah-blah, ha ha, ah-ha UGHHHHHHHH!
Is that writing's demanding
It's mentally challenging and it's a bore
It's such a chore
To sit in a room by yourself, oh my god, I just hate it!
And you're trying to find
An opening line or a brilliant idea
And you're pacing the floor
And hoping for just a bit of divine intervention
That one little nugget, that one little spark
Then Eureka! You find it, you're ready to start!
So now you can write, right? Wrong!
You're not even close, you remember that damn it
Your play's gotta be in iambic pentameter!
So you write down a word but it's not the right word
So you try a new word but you HATE the new word
And you need a good word but you can't find the word
Oh where is it, what is it, what is it, where is it?!
Blah-blah-blah, ha ha, ah-ha UGHHHHHHHH!
— William Shakespeare, Something Rotten!, "Hard to Be the Bard"
