Harper

At night-time, when the world is sleeping and it is past midnight, the spark of writing often visits me. But tonight, even though I want to write, I can’t.

In Storytelling 101 they say this is called ‘writer’s block’ and some things that will help this are:

1) Going for a walk

2) Reading your favourite novel

3) Something called ‘free writing’, where you write everything that is in your brain so that it spills onto the paper like emptying a rubbish bin.

But I can’t do any of these things. My eyes are sleepy. My body is tired and sore and my mind feels like a cloud about to burst with bluey blue rain. All I can hear is the sound of beeping machines around me, louder than the sound of my writing sparks at night.