Tag: writer’s block
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The Elusive Idea
I’ve been sitting here staring at a blank screen for far too long. I wound up leaning back in my chair staring at the mantel and thinking I really need to sew the Death of Rats a robe. I didn’t mean to have my office presided over by a bony rodent’s skeleton – especially…
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Seeking a Cure for Writer’s Block
Writers everywhere know the pain of writer’s block. Staring at the blank paper has, in time, progressed to staring at a blank screen, with the horrendous addition of a blinking cursor flashing in your peripheral version like the tapping toe of an impatient secretary who just wants you to get on with it already. Sunk…
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Hold That Thought
Or: The Fine Art of being Interrupted Constantly whilst trying to write a coherent docum… what do you want now? The dog’s throwing up!? oh for… Ahem. I am the proud mother of four bright children, and I love them very, very much. I’m also the dog mommy of my First Reader’s poochella, and of…
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Time Wasters
I’m supposed to be writing. I’m wanting to write. I am trying to write… Oh, who am I kidding. I’m avoiding writing like it’s the pneumonic plague. So far this morning I’ve cleaned the living room, complete with rearranging furniture and setting up the Homeschool Desk (this needed to be done, yes, but…). I’ve started…
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Breaking the Block: Jade Star Snippet 1
I’m sitting here this morning contemplating what I want to write about. Really, I want to go write fiction. Yesterday in the early evening, while digging through old files looking for stories to include in the collection I’m compiling, I found a scrap I’d forgotten I’d written. Since I have in mind to create some…
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Rebooting my Brain
I’m blogging over at Mad Genius Club today on how I’m going to get back into the swing of writing after this long break. I’m back. I didn’t mean to take two weeks off from blogging, but that’s what it ended up being. It’s not that I haven’t written anything in two weeks, just that…
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Blast from the Past: Building Blocks
More legos. I really ought to get some. The little man can play with them this summer. Yeah, that’s a good reason *shifty eyes* So I’m stuck. I get stuck all the time, looking at this vast lego-block looming in front of me, making me feel like my mind is blank because all I can…
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Back to Writing
I’d been stuck on writing the last couple of days. I managed a little, but wasn’t hitting my word goals, and what was really frustrating, I’d hit a wall. Literally, I had my heroine knocking on a door, her sidekicks behind her, and as an author… I had no idea what was behind that wall.…
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This is Your Brain on Bugs
I’m sitting in microbiology class listening to a lecture on diseases of the gastrointestinal system and when my professor shared an article I had a small revelation. I’ve pondered before the links between stress and creativity, the oft-repeated claims that depression is necessary for the creative, and the connections between mental illness and writers. But…
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Pressing Restart
I’m trying to get my writing restarted after the move. This morning I had an amusing moment when I opened my email and found that Amazon was recommending Vulcan’s Kittens to me as something I might enjoying buying. I went on to read Sarah Hoyt’s ongoing series about a novel in 13 weeks, which if…