Sunday, January 13, 2008

Writer's Block

They say that writer's block is the best cure for writer's cramp. What, then, is the best cure for writer's block?

I've never been a particularly creative person, and rely on random inspirations to write. I write about things that I mull over in my head, and I'm not much of a creative writer. I write what I think, I write what I see, and I write what I believe.

Allow me to just let this spill out for a few minutes, get my aggravations off my chest...

Lately I've had trouble finishing what I start. I feel as if I have a good idea, I'll have a solid idea in my head, and can even find the motivation to start writing. When I come to the end of my rope of inspiration, though, I feel as if the piece is incomplete. The original thought is still there, and the inspiration is still present, but I feel like the last stitch required to tie all of my thoughts together is awry.

I currently have four Blog entries that are still in the "draft" phase. Maybe the ideas were never worthy of being written in the first place. Maybe I just haven't finished cultivating the idea in my head. Maybe there's simply nothing else to say. Maybe my standards for my own writing have increased. I don't know what the problem is, but nothing I write is seeming to please me any longer.

It's quite frustrating.

1 comments:

joltin-joe said...

As FDR (No, not the comedic character from Seinfeld: Franklin Delano Romanowski, but our president FD Roosevelt) once said, "When you come to an end in your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

I think you're interpreting Blogs in the wrong way. And by wrong way, I mean in a different way than I interpret them.

Who cares if an idea is left without resolve? Maybe you haven't resolved it yet. Write that.

Just write.