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It's been a while since I've blogged - but, I've got a column due for the magazine I write for - and I'm supposed to get a newsletter written this weekend for work - and I'm brain dead.

 

Where did my creativity go? Why is it that sometimes I can find inspiration in a leaf falling and other times, I can't string three words together?

 

When I'm under pressure it gets worse - I know my topic - I know the points I want to make but, the damn words escape me. :notworking:

 

I feel like I'm slicing tomatoes with a chainsaw, the thoughts have to be edited and edited again - and then they make no sense what so ever, and it wasn't what I wanted to express in the first place! :doh:

 

At 8 o'clock on Monday morning I have to turn in a 500 word column and a four page newsletter on golf - and here I sit, at 4:53 on Saturday watching the seconds tick by without a word on the paper.

 

The evil "*beep*" they call "Stroke" allows me glimpses of my former creative self when "she" wants to - and "she" challenges me -by denying me access to complete thoughts on occassions like these.

 

Maybe I'll get lucky and in the middle of the night I'll find some inspiration - Perhaps a muse will take pity on me and grant me this favor - :Angel:

 

Maybe in the total depths of of a writer's winter, this "*beep*" they call "Stroke" will release her hold on my damaged brain and allow me to think freely again. For just a moment. And then I'll find a way back to my creativity.

 

~V

 

 

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Well if you come even close to 4 pages on golf .... you will be way beyond my knowldege. I do like to watch it on TV and do know a few names. like Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods.

 

I do understand the fleeting thought syndrome, although i actually feel I do better typing than speaking.. somehow the thoughts get to my fingers, easier than my tongue..

 

Hoping you wake up full of inspiration and have the pages full in no time at all.

Bonnie

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Vicki

 

I love your phrase, slicing tomatoes with a chainsaw. If that isn't creativity I don't know what is.

 

Writer's block happens to everyone and I'll bet you're one of those persons who writes better under pressure. You know you can do it, even if it takes you a little longer now but so what... Good luck!

 

Jean

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VICKI,

 

ANTONE WHO CAN THINK OF 500 WORDS TO WRITE ABOUT GOLF, WELL, I TAKE OFF MY HAT TO THEM!! IF THAT AINT CREATIVE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS CREATIVE!

 

SERIOUSLY, I USED TO WRITE ALL OF THE TIME WITH EASE BEFORE STROKE, AND IT TOOK ME NEARLY TWO YEARS TO ACTUALLY PUT PEN TO PAPER AGAIN. THEN I FIGURED OUT IT WAS EASIER TO KEEP ON TYPING RATHER THAN WRITE THE OLD FASHIONED WAY.

 

 

THERE IS SOMETHING EXCITING ABOUT LOOKING AT A BLANK PAGE OF PAPER AND LETTING THE FIRST IDEA FLOW VS TYPING ON A COMPUTER SCREEN. I HOPE YOUR IDEAS FLOW AGAIN SOON. WE WERE ROBBED SOMEWHAT, BUT I FEEL YOU AND I ARE BOTH STILL CREATIVE, EVEN THOUGH IT MAY COME IN SPURTS!!!!!!!!!

 

 

I'LL BE THINKING OF YOU!!!!!!!

 

 

LOVE YA

KIM :friends:

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