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Today I’m a photographer. Oh and a philosopher. Definitely not a writer suffering from writer’s block.

March 25, 2016 by Mona Andrei 6 Comments

Hey there, awesome readers!

If you follow me on Facebook you may recognize the illustration below. I posted it earlier this week because I was having trouble focusing. This is when I discovered that the best way to avoid the symptoms of writer’s block is to do something other than writing. Slightly brilliant on my part, don’t you think?

My writing muse for today

So while I was sitting in my usual writing spot, not writing, I started thinking about the following expression:

“Change the things that you’re looking at and the things that you’re unable to focus on change.”

(I may be paraphrasing.)

Inspired by this very profound expression (clearly invented by a writer), I decided to change the room I was working in. Or rather, change the view.

So my laptop and I went from this room …

View from my office
View from my office

To this room …

View from my living room
View from my living room

Still nothing.

So then we went to this room ..

View from my bedroom
View from my bedroom

AGAIN NOTHING.

That’s when I decided to do the dishes and suddenly VOILA! As I was standing at the sink, scrubbing dried ketchup from a plate, the words just sort of strung themselves together in my head and I ran back into the arms of my laptop and we lived happily ever after.

Writers Lie

Here’s what really happened …

When I got back to my laptop the string in my head that was holding the words together broke, and suddenly there were partial thoughts and intentions bouncing all around me like a broken string of pearls and all I could focus on was the damn sink with the half-washed dishes.

I believe it was Ernest Hemingway who said, “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

And me who hates the sight of blood. No wonder I can’t focus.

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  1. Renee says

    March 25, 2016 at 5:15 pm

    Love it! Strange where we get our inspiration from…I got mine this week looking at a runner in her cute little outfit running by my house…

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      March 27, 2016 at 2:38 pm

      You’re right, Renee. Inspiration comes from EVERYWHERE 🙂

      Reply
  2. Maggie says

    March 25, 2016 at 5:27 pm

    Well done! Honestly, I could read about writers struggling all day long. Why? Because it is medicine, that’s why! Make no mistake, by sharing moments like these, you are helping all of us, as we wonder from window to window. Have you read the book Art and Fear? It’s one of my bibles. By the way, the photos of your windows were really funny. Like the whole thing!

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    • Mona Andrei says

      March 27, 2016 at 2:37 pm

      Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment, Maggie. Your encouragement means the world to me 🙂

      Reply
  3. Marcia @ Menopausal Mother says

    March 29, 2016 at 3:11 am

    Totally relatable post! I’ve had writer;s block for three weeks now. It took me a month just to write something fresh to submit to a site. I hate it when I get this way.

    Reply
    • Mona Andrei says

      March 29, 2016 at 2:10 pm

      A month! Oh my, I can’t imagine! How did you get out of it, Marcia?

      Reply

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