Showing posts with label writer's block. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writer's block. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Not wanting to write

We'll all have days like these. The paper stays white. We resent it. We complete myriad chores of the kind:

  • rearranging our collection of tickets
  • dusting
  • finding and comparing and making new lists
  • and so on.

The writing does not occur. In my case I usually hate the idea of writing. I am rarely indifferent to it and when that happens somehow it is even worse.


Lately I have been keeping a log of the commute to my geek work. This has been very satisfying in that no work day goes by at least without something written. Pressure off. I can then luxuriate in any poems I write.

Today I feel I don't care about the idea of writing at all.
And I have written this already.

It is a good trick if you can fool yourself.

It doesn't always work though!