Anyone who knows me personally knows, that I am a person who just can't shut up. But there are days when my head is just empty, and I can't even think. Like today, for instance - a busy week at work, and both of my girls having chicken pox at the same time was just too much for my mind.

So the title of this article is ironic because I'm just experiencing a blockade of writing. Slowly typing a letter for a letter, a word comes up after the word, from these words a sentence and finally a dot. I did it! And I already have a few sentences with which I'm starting this article. If you believe me or not, I needed more than half an hour to pick a topic I'm writing about and actually start thinking and writing. And if this time I succeeded with a little motivation and forcing myself, I am convinced that I will succeed in the future.

We all have above-described problems sometimes. It doesn't matter whether it's a school essay, a work report, a graduation thesis, a newspaper article, or just a meaningful post here on Steemit. It doesn't matter whether you are a schoolboy or a professional writer. Holding a pen in your hand in front of the paper, but you can't even move the hand. You have fingers on the keyboard, but there are no words on the screen. It just doesn't go. You're wondering what's wrong with you. You know that you know how to write that this is part of your work and now you feel like you've let yourself down. Or if your brain has let you down.

If you didn't experience that before I congratulate you-you are a miracle of nature... :) I'm not so blessed. There are days when I have to think hard to write something. Ok I know, I could just post a photo, with a comment and that's it. Sometimes I just do that, but that's not the point. I don't want to be one of those people, who goes for the volume. I want less with more quality content.

So why does the writer's block even appears? I think, that the causes are very different - at least that I can speak from my own experiences. The blockade of writing can be caused by stress, fear of failure, low self-esteem, over-thinking, whether or not the reader likes my writing, stress due to the deadline, self-criticism, emotional accumulation, physical illness, lack of time, etc.. But sometimes, I'm just too lazy and I really don't like to write, at that times I just don't want to do anything.

I tried to break the hard ice blockade in various ways, and I don't want to write all down because I think I already wrote too much. I will give you just a few simple tips:

• Try to eliminate the sounds of surrounding, if it's bothering you or try to listen to your favorite music, to focus,

• have drinks and food close by, so you won't be distracted while trying to write,

• turn off the phone and tell the people around you, that you are busy and you don't want to be disturbed,

• try to write the funniest part first - bring joy in your work and try to be at least a little personal (it's easier to write when you write from your soul),

• and finally, take a break, step away from the "crime scene" and take a walk or even start exercising. You will add oxygen to your brain cells, so you will definitely have the energy to write some more.

Being systematic is very important when you want to write a little longer posts. With a little effort will your paper become full of letters, words, and sentences. With this closing line for today, I wanna wish you some productive writing. Good night.

Photos made by me and my Nikon COOLPIX P510.