Godwin Inyang's Blog

Writing your ideas down is surreal But editing what you wrote down is ordeal.

Writing is like the sneeze; The condition is hard to freeze; You can only find release After episodes of the long hiss.

The muse can fly so he alights on your mind; The muse can sing so he pipes a song And the poet picks his drums, flute and gong Engraving on paper for the world to find. The poet the muse on secrecy does bind - What mouth knows the one to tell is the tongue; Who'd tell secrets in breath better than lung? A good poet does not leave his muse behind. What is an actor without an exact role? What is a tale's worth without the bearer? What use is an ink without the paper? Stone dead is the body without the soul! The muse flies, alights and sings on a poet's mind; The poet puts across the songs for all to find.

Writer’s block (as defined by the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary) is ‘a problem that writers sometimes have when they cannot think of what to write and have no new ideas.’ A firm that had been producing goods for public consumption which brought income to maintain the factory and pay the employees is not doing that anymore because of lack of raw materials. It’s either management would desperately look for where to get these resources so production would continue to keep the firm afloat or there is an imminent threat of a shutdown and that means the employees and management might lose their jobs. A writer running out of ideas is like an industry going bankrupt and panic would grip most workers’ minds. But panicking isn’t the solution to smashing, I mean, curing a writer’s block. Like the industry, a writer must do his or her best to get the raw materials (new ideas and experiences) that would imbue him or her with zest to keep writing. I’d say that writer’s block does not...