Writing Block

It's been a while since I've posted, and I really have no excuse except procrastination. However, this weekend I am so getting a routine going because I cannot continue winging it what with all the school work and things that I want to get better at, like writing, and drawing, and things I want to do like read for fun and not for school (although I don't mind that too much, I just don't have time!). Anyway, I'm done with my little rant.


So, I think I'm going through a writer's block now. That's never happened to me before, but then again most of the time I used to write just for fun and whenever I felt like. Even when I was writing for fun, I never created a routine and I never wrote every single day. In fact, it was more like I would write on one day, be surprised at how much I wrote (maybe, maybe not), and never pick up that writing again. Now, though, I have a paper due each week, and while I don't ever really get writer's blocks with research papers and the like, I'm also taking a class on creative writing, and that's where the block comes in. 


Because I can write about almost anything it's hard to come up with an idea. Plus, we are also writing a 10-minute play, which I have no clue how to write, but I am doing research on it! Anyway, the first two papers, I didn't have much trouble with because they were in story format, which, because I read a lot, I have that format down pretty much (I mean, I'm sure I have lots to improve upon, but I know how that format works.), but I don't read a lot of plays. In fact, the only plays I have ever read were Romeo and Juliet and Caesar, and those were for school. The only play I have ever seen was Shepherd of the Hills. I don't have anything against plays (or poetry for that matter), I just prefer reading a novel over a play (and I'm still working on the whole understanding poetry part). 


Another thing, it was also easier for me to write our first fiction short story is because I'd already been toying with that story idea. I hadn't written it down, but I already knew what I was going to write about, and the biography writing was, obviously, pretty easy once I figured out what memory I was going to write about. I know I have some ideas that I would gather like, "Oh, that would make for a great character," etcetera, but I don't have a plot idea. At all. My professor had us be in groups and come up with a thing like setting, theme, etc. and our group came up with a bank robbery. Which is a fun idea, but I have no clue what my plot is going to be, and that's why I think I have writer's block. It may help to start writing some things day, and maybe get some character backgrounds and the like, but I'm really worried about this paper. I mean, I'm worried about the poetry, too, but at least I know some poetry things like limerick, haiku, and rhyme, but I have no background knowledge of plays, so I'm concerned. 


Anyway, I better go and start plotting out some ideas.