Writer’s block, it happens to everyone. Some people leave things to last minute like me. Now leaving things to last minute is something that I have always done and I am usually always able to finish my work. The process that usually occurs when I leave things to last minute goes as follows. I write really well for the first 30 minutes of the essay, thought and ideas just flowing out of me. Then right in the middle of the essay, I slow down. I go back re-read what I wrote making sure it makes sense to me. After doing so a few times I realize that I have nothing else to say.  This happens to me mainly when I am right in the middle of writing a blog usually. So I decided to investigate further on what I can do to fix this so I can consistently writing without stopping for an hour trying to come up with something that I should have came up within 5 minutes.

In a recent article they talk about ways to beat writer’s block. In the article they suggest to eat food that stimulates brain activity such foods have high amounts of protein and amino fatty acids. Examples would be eating fish, eggs and beans. Now personally I am not a seafood guy, also I can’t just eat eggs whenever I can’t think about what to post on the blog. So some further options they give are going for a walk. Now this might take up some time but it is better than sitting in the same place waiting for inspiration to hit you. You should rather go on a walk and see if you can find the inspiration by exposure to the world.  As the list continues on what people could do to cure their writer’s block the main point that each of them focus on is taking your mind off the problem. Now this is an example of a false positive that people have a misconception of how to deal with writer’s block.

Then I decided to look up an actual study done on writer’s block seeing how it works. The first study that the article talks about was a study in 2005 when they analyzed participant’s brain as they told a story to see what parts of the brain were used when the story was being formed and told. The results show a significant activity in the pre-frontal cortex of the brain. Showing that the brain that not the creativity side of the brain but the speech and spatial awareness was the parts that were most engaged.

Then in the same article another study conducted in 2013 participants were asked to actually write a story while under an fMRI scanner. The results yielded a lot of activity in the frontal cortex where creativity comes from in each individual person. At the end of this article, based on the studies they also give some tips on how to stop writing block from wasting time. Some examples would be getting inspired by a different story to intertwine with your own ideas. Also to try writing without stopping to make thought continue to flow and go back later to make the edits of where thoughts could have gotten mixed up or confused.

In conclusion the studies conducted shows there is a correlation between the creativity part of brain and writer’s block. This happens because our creativity gets stopped up, we can’t think of the next thing to say based on you questioning the quality of the work and the time frame you have to complete the work.  So leaving things to last minute increases the likelihood of people getting writer’s block. As a final conclusion for asking the question of how to cure writer’s block the answer is to not procrastinate so the stress behind writing is bearable.