The Work of Writer's Block

It's all been done before

“CONTENT MAN” by dril

In an era punctuated by the relentless tap of 280-character Twitter thoughts and meandering motivational captions from Instagram steroid users,¹ the pursuit of originality in writing has found itself buried under a deluge of tweets and posts. It's as if the collective consciousness of the internet has been distilled into bite-sized aphorisms, leaving little room for the expansive thought once celebrated in literature and journalism.² The advice "If you want to develop a good case of writer’s block, just read 100 Twitter posts" isn't a wry comment on the state of contemporary writing; it's a grim reflection of the creative wasteland that social media has fostered.