Writer's Block

Shortly after the Great Shift, Eric pitched a story to write for the newspaper about his own personal experience finding himself in a woman’s body. His editor loved the idea, but once he started to try to get working on it writer’s block struck.

What exactly could he say that hadn’t been said by slews of people on the internet already? He knew he was a better writer than most, but many of those raw, initial reactions had been just so powerful. People wrote about feeling strange about being in a dramatically different body -- their new gender, their new age, their new life.

And while he had become a woman like many others, it hadn’t exactly felt life-changing. There was just something remarkably ordinary about the woman he had become. But maybe that was the angle? Maybe a sense of self persisted that didn’t matter or care what the outside shell looked like? Maybe there was a story in here about how things weren’t nearly as strange as they first seemed...