Writer's Block

Writer's Block
noun

a psychological inhibition preventing a writer from proceeding with a piece

Writer's Block. The hopelessness of staring at a blank screen, not knowing how and where to begin. I have my data and research nearly complete. But putting that data into words, and explaining how the data correlates to each other seems extremely difficult, at least to me. I'm not quite sure how to begin. I suppose my first job is to start writing the Abstract and then focusing on actually writing the paper. 
Scientists aren't quite sure what causes Writer's Block, or mental blocks of any kind. I hypothesize that Writer's Block is caused by a mix of being too distracted to write and not knowing what to write. Writing a research paper shouldn't be this convoluted (tedious and time-consuming, maybe, but not difficult). But I personally have always had problems with writing in general. Even these blog posts are unusually difficult for me to write.

 I plan to try tackling this problem by making an outline for my paper prior to writing it.

(My Outline more or less):

- Title Page 
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Main Paper
- Acknowledgements
- Works Cited

If you have any tips for tackling Writer's Block, please comment down below. Thanks!

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