Smashing through the Writer's Block

I love writing but there are those times where every writer will hit that roadblock and become so frustrated that they can't move on. It has happened to me many times. I've found myself spending an hour staring at my computer's screen because I just can't think of what to write, or I'll become so annoyed with my inability to write anything that I can even consider calling 'good' that I want to throw my laptop at the wall. Of course many people have different remedies for 'Writer's Block', some people have even claimed that it doesn't exist. They are quite often wrong.

I often find that I get these blocks during those times I have usually been in the flow. I will get quite frequent bouts of insomnia where I will simply comsume gallons of water, many buscuits and write loads of stuff. I mean who cares if I don't drag myself up until 10am right? Who cares if I am frantically writing until 4am? It is usually then after about an hour or so when I've stopped to re-fill my glass of water, or if I've decided it's so late I may as well pull and all nighter, coffee. I'll sit back down, with my laptop, take a breath and put my hands on the keyboard only to find that nothing comes. I've hit that thing where I just can't write.

So I now find myself on the other side of my writer's block, and how did I get through it? Well, by writing. That's right I just wrote and wrote and wrote until I got something I was happy with. I may have written 10 pages of dross but I eventually came up with a nice little short story. Although now I look at it again the story could do with some extensive edits. Though that's not the point, being able to write a whole story or poem or whatever it happens to be is a great morale booster and psychologically I feel better and more relieved.

Of course, I could just be odd!