Tag: writer’s block
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Constipated Writing
Understanding That Thing Called “Writer’s Block” Writer’s block is consistently challenged as not being a real thing. From podcasts to books, there are plenty who argue that what writers call writer’s block is nothing more than a figment of one’s imagination. But what is that thing that the writer is experiencing then? If not writer’s…
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There are ruts…
…and then there are ruts. I’ve been in one for a while. Of course I have. I’ve ranted about it here and there on this site for over a year. It started on the heals of a long streak of writing before it collapsed after a family event. Since then it’s been quite an ordeal…
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Lubing Up

A funny thing occurred to me yesterday while I was out in the rain walking. Thought was stirred by a belief that I was having trouble figuring out what to talk about, or write about, every day on my site. Along with writing 1,000 words in fiction every day I am trying to write a…
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A Therapeutic Rant

To say that I haven’t written in a long time is not quite an accurate statement. I have written some. Mainly words have come in sporadic bursts, like a sneeze of literary gumption, where I will add words to a page and then move on to some other thing, seemingly unable to continue writing. Days…
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When You Haven’t Written
I am exhausted. Tired. After clearing out a bag’s worth of junk from some of my little areas of the house, playing with my son in the snow, running out and getting stuff for my wife, I realized that I hadn’t taken the time to blog or much less write at all today. It now…