Writer's Block
Published on June 19, 2015
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It's that instant in time between when you are ready to create something amazing and when it comes down to putting it on paper. You have a marvelous idea. You plan it all out in your head. It's going to be amazing. It might even be a NY Times Best Seller. Your creative juices are flowing and your mind is running rampant.
You sit down at the computer, open your word processor, pull up a blank screen and then it happens. Ooooh squirrel! Your mind goes totally blank. What was I going to do? Oh yeah, fix a sandwich. No, that's not it. Call someone? Nope, not that either. Oh yeah, write some content for your website.
But what was it about. You don't recall. It was going to be great though. You do remember that much. It's right there, just at the back of your mind. Why - won't- it-come-out-? AAAARGH!
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So you decide to take a walk. That will clear your mind for sure. Forty-five minutes later you're back. You're hot and you're sweaty. Nice refreshing shower will take care of that. Ah! Much better now. Now what were you going to do. Oh yeah, that sandwich. Might as well get a cold beer to go with that. That might just help you relax and get back in the writing mood.
Nope! That just made you want another cold beer and to find something on TV that will probably finish frying what's left of your pea sized brain. Come on, snap out of it. You've got work to do. Get busy. Get off your duff and get to writing.
Writing? What writing? The house needs cleaning, you don't have time for writing now. Two hours later, the house is spic and span and that article that you were going to right is still not any closer to being published. Damn, what was it that you were going write about?
Oh yeah! You had this great idea about how to change the world. It was going to make you richer than your wildest dreams. You had the greatest idea since the automobile. That was it. Quick get to the computer so you don't forget again. There you go, sit down, and start getting it out to the masses. The world depends on it.
Oooh squirrel!
Damnit!
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