{"id":10564,"date":"2018-09-24T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/wilkinson\/2018\/09\/24\/working-through-despair-and-blockage\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:14:08","slug":"working-through-despair-and-blockage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/2018\/09\/24\/working-through-despair-and-blockage\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Through Despair and Blockage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/09\/mariam-said.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10566 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2018\/09\/mariam-said.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"\/wilkinson\/msaid@chapman.edu\">By Mariam Said<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nMFA Program Assistant<\/p>\n<p>When I first started applying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapman.edu\/wilkinson\/graduate-studies\/creative-writing-mfa.aspx\">MFA programs<\/a> a little more than a year and a half ago, it was for the purpose of finding a writing community. I was in the middle of my second year of teaching, and I was miserable, I wasn\u2019t writing, and I wanted out. Surrounding myself with other writers seemed like the perfect solution to get my writing juices flowing again, if not by inspiration, then at least by a little shame. So far, this hasn\u2019t been unfolding as planned. As someone who is inept at establishing routines, keeping up with a writing habit in moments of despair and blockage has proven tough and at times impossible.<\/p>\n<p>While I write more now than I did when I was teaching, it is only when I feel I am under great pressure to turn in assignments on time (or at least not too late). I would like to blame my lack of work ethic on anxiety and depression, but that feels like a copout. Many of my friends with the same diagnoses still find ways to find time for the comfort that writing or having written provides them.<\/p>\n<p>In response to my question about how to work past moments of despair and blockage, second-year MFA student Liz Harmer shared sage words that could go into a best-selling coffee table book: \u201cThere is not really getting past it but more managing it and trying to use it for. . . work. I don\u2019t think you need to suffer to make art but you CAN turn your suffering into art.\u201d Liz says that self-care is of the utmost importance. For her this means \u201cnot drinking, exercising, sleeping enough, [and\/or] watching something funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There can be as many different methods of self-care as there are individuals in the world. Find what works best for you. While I hate it, I have found that exercising makes me feel better about myself and helps me focus in on what needs to be done later on. I am also quite partial to anything that gives me an excuse to whittle away at my Netflix list. Slap a sheet mask on my face, and I\u2019ll be even happier to sit back, zone out, and self-care for the grand purpose of finding inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Concise king and second-year MA\/MFA Dual Degree student Matt Goldman says, \u00a0\u201cI write any garbage that pops into my head to get past blocks. Eventually something sticks and starts to inspire me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meg Boyles, a second-year MFA student focusing on poetry, has a similar tactic. When she feels stuck, she thinks back to \u201cold poetry prompts, [and] that starts to give [her] a way back into the writing.\u201d Sometimes working around restraints is conducive to firing up her writing juices. She\u2019ll focus on writing \u201ca sentence with an internal rhyme and an image\u201d or she\u2019ll \u201cmimic the sentence structure\u201d of whatever she can find closest to her to help her write in a way that she normally wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>One of Meg\u2019s strategies that I have found helpful for my own writing is going back to a piece of writing that has particularly vivid imagery to remind myself of \u00a0what Meg describes as a \u201cfeeling I want to evoke.\u201d And Meg admits, \u201cIf all else fails. . . save the document and start a new one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t eliminated my despair and blockage, but I\u2019m not in this alone\u2014and neither are you. 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