Writing Prompts
Block
A block can build.
A child can take a handful of colourful building blocks and create castles, bridges, or entire imaginary worlds. One small block at a time, something new appears.
But a block can also stop us.
A roadblock.
A writer’s block.
A mental block that keeps us doubting ourselves even when we know the way forward.
I’ve met both kinds.
There have been days when the words refused to come, when every sentence felt trapped behind an invisible wall.
Then, almost without warning, the block crumbled, and the words flowed faster than I could write them down.
Life has taught me that not every block is an enemy.
Some are there to slow us down. To make us pause. To ask whether we’re climbing the right wall or walking the right path.
Even a block of ice eventually melts.
Even a stone block can become the foundation of a home.
Perhaps the real question isn’t whether we will encounter blocks.
We all will.
The question is what we choose to do with them.
Will we let them become barriers?
Or will we use them as stepping stones toward something stronger?
Sometimes the very thing that seems to stop us today…
becomes the foundation we stand on tomorrow.
With love, coffee, poetry, and stardust,
— Maggie The Afterlove Voice 💫
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