Muddled Mind

Thomas Mann once quoted, "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for others." Which is true, because every writer has trouble writing and you will relate to this if you have a flare for writing but often find it hard to give wings to your flare. Our hands pick the pen, kiss the paper and then are taken back without a word being written. This happens often. Sometimes only paper listens to us so we approach writing to empty our minds. Sometimes, we write because we have a story to tell and the thought of creating something that didn't exist before is as close as to magic as we'll ever get. The most difficult part when one sits down to write is his/her content. How do we pick one topic out of all that we have observed and made a mental note on since the last time we wrote? What could a reader relate to with more ease; History, politics, ethics, religion, food, relationships, aspirations, environment, logic, fiction or one of my personal experiences?
It seems like all you have to do is sit down with a calm mind, put one word after the other but in reality, writing is the outcome of a restless mind that is dying to paint its voice on paper. The mind of a writer is never on vacation, he/she is either writing or thinking about writing. Also, there are only some pieces that a writer publishes and shares. In some pieces, a writer may choose to use simple words to reach his reader to the fullest and then there are some pieces where, a writer chooses to use words that are synonymous to a simple word and we like the complexity because there are some pieces we write to just be empty and not to be understood. Writing is like a code that the writer invents and uses this to decode his own pieces looking back at them. You may not write well everyday but you can always edit a bad page, you cannot edit a blank one.
Every writer comes across several points in life when there seems to be a tree that has fallen on our road. A writer's block can probably be understood by saying it is those many times in our lives when our imaginary friends stop talking to us. Another part where we scratch our heads is the closure to our piece of writing. You are aware that your reader will remember the last few lines of your piece better than the rest, how do you make an effect in that one last line? Do you post your opinion? Or quote somebody famous? Or leave it reader-ended? Or end it abruptly with your most used punctuation- the full stop. I will be doing that here.