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Wrung Out

Posted on | June 26, 2008 | 2 Comments

Did you ever take a saturated wash rag and twist in one direction until no more water came out then twisted it the other way?  Something has done that to my creative mojo. All the stories I could have possibly written, at least in my opinion I wrote. I had a bitch of time writing the last Weekly Shorts story and it was horrible. It must be one of the worst stories I put on here, I am almost embarassed by it. What I should I done was skip a week.

What the hell do I know anyway, I don’t even know if skipping a week would have done any good. It is not like I don’t spend my days writing and I wonder if that is the problem, am I writing too much or am I not living enough? People say ( I don’t who these people are) that to work through writer’s block you still write. But I do that and I think it is just getting worse at least on my end.

I don’t know how people can write in the same genre over and over. I am so afraid of copying a story that I have seen on television or read in a book.  I don’t think  there is anything left at. This is worse when I went through several years of writer’s block. I have the desire to write, the compulsion but I don’t want to produce crap and lately that is what I have been doing.

Maybe it is too safe at home, too safe in my self-created world amongst cyber phantoms. Maybe my house isn’t organized fully. Maybe a lot of things and I just can’t place my finger on the exact problem. It could be a lot of things like a person who drank too much and ready to expel. Maybe I worry too much or fret too much or hope that if I sleep more that I will have the answer in my dreams but it doesn’t come there either.

Asleep. Something is asleep, perhaps I need to jump off a cliff – with a bungee.

Category: notes on writing

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2 Responses to “Wrung Out”

  1. PlotDog
    July 6th, 2008 @ 4:26 pm

    I have bouts too, hate em, but I just assume it is my brain reordering my stories.

    Some times, reading outside my usual style helps, more often than not, bitching on blog posts (that I don’t post) helps too.

    Go ahead, hook me on as your bungee and if there is anything I can do to give you a bounce back, let me know.

    Plot Dog

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