A Writer's Block
​by Korede Feyisitan​

It was a Monday afternoon, October the first in Language Arts class. "On the sheet of paper I have given you, write down the bare bones of a something that happened in your lives," said our teacher Dr. M. "The main part of the story." It also had to have a problem. Of course everybody has problems in their lives, even me, but I just couldn't think about anything. I raised my hand and Dr. M came to my desk. 

"What do I do if I can't think of anything," I asked. 
"Just think of a time in your life when you had a problem," he said. 
"But if I do that," I said, "it wouldn't be very good." 
"It might be," he said. 

I thought and thought and thought, but nothing came. It was like right when I was about to start writing my mind went blank. As if nothing was ever in that little head of mine. The whole class was almost done and I still couldn't come up with anything. "Well this is gonna take a while," I thought. 

"I just need something," I thought. Something worth writing. I tapped my pencil on the table. Something interesting, funny. Something that everyone would want to know about, "C'mon Korede, think! Think!!!!"

Again. I thought and thought and thought and thought. Until something finally popped into my head. 
Finally. 

Maybe I could write about the story and problem that was right there and then. It could be an interesting story. I'm sure I could whip something up. 

So I wrote the story you're reading now.