writer’s block

My Writing ‘Process’ by Elle Pedersen

My mum rang me for my birthday a couple of weeks ago.

She had found my old intermediate school reports – most of my teachers said the same thing: “Elle is very good with her writing and reading but disrupts lessons in class and upsets her classmates.”

Hmmmm – so basically I’m a pain in the ar*e who can read and write – explains why I write.

Working full-time as a palliative care nurse for the past seven years, I’ve rediscovered my inner-child, revisited all the things I dreamed about as a kid.

I don’t think there’s one single person on this earth that hasn’t felt alone and afraid.

When you are able to describe very intense emotions/feelings that you have felt personally – in any form of literature and other people can relate – that is pretty awesome.

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Writer’s Block, Travel and Encountering Ourselves…

It’s really hard to write. I’m traveling with my youngest.

I hated leaving home. And yet I felt stuck.

Stuck.

Not a good place to be as a writer.

And yet it happens.

I don’t experience writer’s block, as much as encountering periods wherein it is just hard to write. I lack the stamina to even get started.

I feel not excitement.

Ideas for a new story, ever how short, evade me.

Perhaps this is writer’s block.

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