It’s August 12, 7:27 p.m., and the cursor blinks in front of me like a tiny lighthouse waiting to guide me… but there’s no ship, no sail, no wind to carry me to shore.
Writer’s block has arrived once again, that silent visitor who never asks permission to enter.
It’s not that there are no ideas.
In fact, my head is an agitated ocean: thoughts, memories, reflections, even stray phrases that could become something beautiful.
But when I try to catch them, they dissolve between my fingers, as if they were water.
The noise that never turns into words
Sometimes I think the real block isn’t the absence of inspiration, but having too many things to say at once. So many stories pushing at the door that none manage to come through completely. It’s like trying to sing all your favorite songs in one breath—you end up in silence.
Accepting the emptiness as part of the process
We don’t always have to fight the emptiness. Maybe writing isn’t just about filling pages, but also about learning to listen to ourselves in silence. Sitting in front of that blank canvas without forcing the words, letting them arrive when they choose—without resentment, without haste.
Small escape routes
In those moments, I find it helps to write something small: a sentence, an image, a memory. Something that doesn’t try to be perfect, but simply honest. Because sometimes, the first step to breaking the block is accepting that we don’t have to write a masterpiece every single day.
And if today all I can write is that I don’t know what to write… then that’s what I’ll leave here.
Because even silence has something to say.