I've been away from blogging for quite a while.
Yeah it's the job, but it's not like I'm super busy or something.
It's just that I haven't written a blog for so long that I couldn't take it anymore.
Even though in my job, all I do is write stuff, but this is different.
I'm not paid to write this and that's what makes this fun.
But honestly, stuff I write at work is fun too, but it goes through a lot of edit from my seniors, clients, etc. and that takes the fun away.
For a long time, I've been trying to search for a topic to write about.
I couldn't and I started to fear the thing that used to haunt me in the past has come back to haunt me again.
Writer's block.
I'm no stranger to this.
During my school days, I used to try writing novels, yeah... try.
I had a story in my mind that I wanted to tell, I did some research on it, then I started writing it.
I got as far as a couple chapters and that's when it kicked in.
I hated myself for it, I knew writing was something that I wanted to do in the future as well.
But if this writer's block would happen every now and then, then I had to figure a solution for it.
So, I started reading, watching movies, listening to music, anything that inspired me I would take a look at it.
It didn't help me much, basically all I did was try to rip-off some famous movie plot or just copy the book word to word.
Years went by and my writing habit disappeared, I guess I had abandoned all hope of writing anything.
I picked up the guitar at a time when people were busy thinking about what to do in the future.
My mom and most of my family had high hopes of me becoming banker.
I hated that.
No one in my family has any right to tell me what to do in my life, least of all decide my future.
I knew bankers make a shit ton of money and get a lot of perks.
But that's not what I wanted to become.
I wanted to feed my creative side and call it luck or whatever, I got introduced to advertising.
Here's a job where your creative thinking can turn a product into a brand, win you awards and recognition and what's more lets you be you.
The drawback, most people don't understand what you do, you don't paid what you deserve and thanks to the odd working hours, you can kiss your social life goodbye.
Now that I'm in advertising and doing what I do best - write.
I still look forward to the day when my written words would become famous.
Till then, I hope that my writer's block stays unblocked.
Yeah it's the job, but it's not like I'm super busy or something.
It's just that I haven't written a blog for so long that I couldn't take it anymore.
Even though in my job, all I do is write stuff, but this is different.
I'm not paid to write this and that's what makes this fun.
But honestly, stuff I write at work is fun too, but it goes through a lot of edit from my seniors, clients, etc. and that takes the fun away.
For a long time, I've been trying to search for a topic to write about.
I couldn't and I started to fear the thing that used to haunt me in the past has come back to haunt me again.
Writer's block.
I'm no stranger to this.
During my school days, I used to try writing novels, yeah... try.
I had a story in my mind that I wanted to tell, I did some research on it, then I started writing it.
I got as far as a couple chapters and that's when it kicked in.
I hated myself for it, I knew writing was something that I wanted to do in the future as well.
But if this writer's block would happen every now and then, then I had to figure a solution for it.
So, I started reading, watching movies, listening to music, anything that inspired me I would take a look at it.
It didn't help me much, basically all I did was try to rip-off some famous movie plot or just copy the book word to word.
Years went by and my writing habit disappeared, I guess I had abandoned all hope of writing anything.
I picked up the guitar at a time when people were busy thinking about what to do in the future.
My mom and most of my family had high hopes of me becoming banker.
I hated that.
No one in my family has any right to tell me what to do in my life, least of all decide my future.
I knew bankers make a shit ton of money and get a lot of perks.
But that's not what I wanted to become.
I wanted to feed my creative side and call it luck or whatever, I got introduced to advertising.
Here's a job where your creative thinking can turn a product into a brand, win you awards and recognition and what's more lets you be you.
The drawback, most people don't understand what you do, you don't paid what you deserve and thanks to the odd working hours, you can kiss your social life goodbye.
Now that I'm in advertising and doing what I do best - write.
I still look forward to the day when my written words would become famous.
Till then, I hope that my writer's block stays unblocked.
