quoth-the-ravenclaw:

• a blinking cursor on an otherwise completely blank word document
  
• red squiggles everywhere because your laptop doesn’t recognize any of the character names
• an endless trek through thesaurus.com trying to figure out the word that’s on the tip of your tongue that you just can’t remember
• typing a word, deleting it, 20 minutes pause while you try to come up with something better, then giving up and retyping the same word
• doing a quick google for research purposes and then accidentally ending up 30 articles deep in wikipedia with a new found expertise on Polish trade practices during the 1800s
• giving up halfway through the chapter and making PLACEHOLDERS IN ALL CAPS CUZ YOU CAN’T BE BOTHERED TO FIGURE THIS FUCKING PART OUT RIGHT NOW
• deleting entire paragraphs
• panicking and frantically hitting ctrl+z
• an endless string of G’s because you passed out on your keyboard at 3 am