Entry 3

My inner critic is always the one to judge my work in every flaws that I, myself as a writer, cannot see because I'm too focus on writing. My inner critic criticizes my usage of words, the way how I started/ended an idea, the sudden changes I input differ from my outline in prewriting, and many more. Due to the sudden rage of ideas by my inner critic suggesting things in my work, I often stop for a mean time to calm my mind, then go back to my work to see the flaws. But that's not every time, because most of the time it causes me to stop writing for days, or sometimes even weeks, because I can't contain the rage of ideas causing me not to absorb it. They are all just in my head, but I cannot determine what are they because I can't process them. That is, a writer's block. 

Besides from my inner critic, other factors that causes me writer's block is the lack of sleep and eat, which results to poor concentration in creating a work. Additionally, noisy surroundings can also block my mind because I only have a short attention span and whenever my environment is noisy or busy, I tend to notice every single thing causing me to leave my attention in my work. Even though I forces my mind to think, its still not gonna process.

When it comes to fighting writer's block,whenever it is just the reason of lack of sleep/eat, I just take a nap or eat a snack for my brain to works well. When it comes to noisy environment, I first finish my business there if ever I have one, then proceed to a quiet place like my house or in the library, to continue my work. 

Writer's block is a difficult thing to combat with in the first place, but I often uses small remedies to not prolong the effect of writer's block. First is, I am a kind of person that works well under pressure. Hence, I often create a personal deadline just for myself only to finish the piece. It is like an emergency button whenever I felt a sudden writer's block. This is how it works, once I write earlier than my personal deadline, if ever writer's block occur, I will write maybe just a day or two before the deadline because my brain is at its peak whenever it is seeing the deadline infront of me therefore writer's block will stop and won't have a slightest chance to come back. This helps me to prevent the long duration of my writer's block, and to also finish my work despite this circumstances.

I told my friend about my experience and she suggested that I must watch a movie or read a book to linger my creative juices. If that still won't works, she added that I must take a walk to let my blood flow continuously and also for me to see people because that may trigger my brain to create scenarios, causing it to process and to fight its own lack of creative zests. 

The possible changes that I can think can help me overcome a writer's block is by creating a writing routine. There are always certain times of days that I badly want to write but my brain don't want to do so because my mind is set that it is just my rest day, and not my working day. By creating a routine or a plan scheduled beforehand, I can trick my brain that I need to do a certain task by that day, hence boosting my mind to produce creative juices. I need to also have enough eat and sleep by that day to prevent being sleepy or hungry. I must also eat adequately because whenever I am full, I always feels sleepy.