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?
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 …
To this room …
Still nothing.
So then we went to this room ..
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.
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.
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…
You’re right, Renee. Inspiration comes from EVERYWHERE 🙂
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!
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment, Maggie. Your encouragement means the world to me 🙂
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.
A month! Oh my, I can’t imagine! How did you get out of it, Marcia?