blocked words

When words fail, we blame writer’s block. For those who do not write, the idea can seem either ridiculous or irritating. It is neither of those things. Writer’s block is a huge, nigh insurmountable mountain that can appear without warning leaving the writer dazed, confused, and frustrated. Hours can be spent pounding around the keyboard attempting to find a pass of any size through this damnable mountain, only to have an avalanche come crashing down upon the writer’s head. Now, instead of just a picturesque mountain, the writer has a suffocating and chilling mass pressing down upon them, slowly killing what hope they had left.
Damn.
There are times when the writer is left for days in this situation, barely clinging to life, before remembering that they have a match, a shovel, a staff of igniting, something! that can get them out from under the crushing snows. Slowly, resolutely, the writer pulls themselves out of the crushing snow, and, if they are lucky, they find that the snows have pushed them to the entrance of a winding mountain pass. This pass is full of twists and turns, and oft-times will have the writer backtracking to find some obscured turn that they missed, but eventually the pass will show them clear. The writer, exhausted but exhilarated, triumphant, will begin to write with a renewed passion and dedication! The path clear in front of them.
Until the next moment of writer’s block.