Writer's Block is Like...

I'm in between classes. I'm relaxing. I'm in my down time. Why can't I write? Everything I've read about this process says "just write" or "be creative." If I could write and be creative would't I'd done that already. I really didn't want to write about writer's block because who knows how many times that subject might make an appearance on the blog.

Well, I figure I'll come up with a new exercise which will use the figure of speech to find different ways to describe writer's block. It's lame, but at least it's something to write about.

Adjunction - Blocked is the writer.
Alliteration - The writer writes wetly. (Oh, that's awful. Let's try again.) The writer's block beats badly. (Blah! Let's try again.) The blocked mind mocks me. (Yeah. That's better.)
Allusion - I feel like the bard on his worst day. (Actually, it's an 'antonomasia' too.)
Anastrophe - Write I can not but try I shall.
Anaphora - I cannot write. I cannot scribe. I cannot type.
Antithesis - Writer's block is easy on the hands and hard on the mind.
Climax - Writers suffer blockage, blockage stifles creativity, creativity will burst the dams.
Hyperbole - I'll never write again.
Irony - I wrote an excellent article about writer's block.
Litotes - I am not unfamiliar with the concept of writer's block.
Metaphor - The writer's block is a black-hole of ideas.
Paradox - Blocked writers are full of ideas.
Onomatopoeia - The writer's mind whispers wind.
Oxymoron - Blocked writing.
Paralipsis - I will not dwell on the emptiness of my pages.
Personification -  The blank page screamed silence.
Simile - Writer's block is like slamming into a brick wall.
Zeugma - The writer opened her mind and her pen to the page.

I think this worked. It reminded me that I need to laugh and have fun. It's harder to crack a blockade if I'm taking myself too seriously.

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