ARGH! Writer's Block!
It's been a bit of a surprise for me. For real, I've never suffered writer's block before ....probably because I'm such an opinionated cuss. (I may not know much, but I usually do know what I think about stuff.)
I always sort of pooh-poohed the notion that you could hit a wall in writing. I never have before. After all, I'm the Metaphor Queen. Ideas are my playground. Words are my minions. (I think I just got deposed or something.)
Wow! It is a really confusing head-space. The ideas refuse to align and run around bumping into each other or they stand around in the corners of my mind having shouting matches that degenerate into wrestling bouts.
I feel like a parent with out-of-control ADD kids who somehow got into the hidden candy stash. Yipes!
It sort of reminds me of recalcitrant poems that refuse to gel, but this is on a much larger scale. I can't even get a cogent sentence together.
This has never ever happened to me before. I can always write. It's a given. (I thought.)
Hmmm....
When the poems refuse to come together, it's because I am arguing with myself about how I really feel about something or other.
Maybe that's the problem. I THINK just fine. It's all that touchy-feely stuff that's tripping me up.
What I'm witnessing, I think, is an epic clash of polarized, opposing ideas that I've been sorta- kinda balancing without actually thinking (or feeling my feelings) about them.
This sucks.
This has been going on for weeks now. ARGH!
[This is what happens, I think, when you dig down into your core values. Two opposing ideas held in a balanced sort of tension seem to have shifted around and I'm making a run at formulating a third option. Synthesis is the mother of hair-pulling. You got that here.....]
Who knew that writing could be so exciting!
Hope you-all are having a good time....
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Even if you have the writer's block syndrome,
you wrote a great post.
So I wish you to get rid of it and to continue
to write so well.
Have a great day!
Ingrid
Thanks, Ingrid. I'm just blathering in the post. That ain't Writing-with-the-Capital-W.
Don't mind me. Writers are weird, they tell me. (Sigh!)
-- Netta
Well you articulated that post for writer's block. It must be getting better. I understood what you were trying to convey.
Go get inspired somewhere. Go harass you spouse or children it will come. Thank you for sharing. Be Blessed.
Thanks for the pep-talk, Cherry.
The thing is, to me, that there is NOT writing. That's just whining. But, you are right...I am getting somewhere or other. Sort of.
Thanks for stopping by.
-- Netta
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Nice post, Alan
Thanks, Alan....
-- Netta