Sunday, July 10, 2011

First Post

Writer's block is a funny thing.  Not "funny ha-ha" mind you, but funny nonetheless.  Trying to think of something to write here I ran up against my old friend/foe, the writer's block.  I have come to think of it as a sort of entity unto itself after all these years.  I have within me, a gift for writing, or at least so I have felt and been told in the past.  However, I also struggle to find inspiration, motivation and forward momentum in wordsmithery.  (Yeah, I think I just made up that last word, but it sounded right..)  I constantly find myself "up against the block" as it were, wanting, on some level at least, to express myself with words(written, typed, even occasionally spoken) and yet unable to think of the thing to say, or the clever metaphor, even just some way new of observing something, so as not to seem boring, obtuse or plagiarizing.

     So it comes that my first post on my new blog is about writer's block.  I have written about writer's block before.  Maybe it comes from a hope that in giving "the block" some undue, hopefully unwanted(it is my FOE after all, I want for 'it' any of the things it does not want) attention, it will GO AWAY.  I suppose it is possible that "the block" knows what is best for me, and it only surfaces to stymie and stop my writing efforts when it is in the better interest of my own mental health that I NOT write what I intended to, writing on other subjects, or at times, not writing at all.  Perhaps "the block" is a silent hero in my life, saving bits of my sanity by it's efforts to block my creative outlets at times of my own mental weakness.  Or it is just a dick.  Not wanting creative expression of any kind to exist when it is around.

     I think I had more to say in that last paragraph, but I do not think that "the block" likes me talking about him, as my fount of words seems to have run dry once more.  Ah well.. I have bleed a fair amount of words onto this digital page all the while fighting the writer's block, so I will have to accept 3 paragraphs as a decent affront to "the block"s efforts to silence my pixelated penmanship.  I hope I am able to find a successful outlet in this blog for the imp of creativity that sometimes dwells behind my eyes.  And maybe if I battle "the block" more often, he will torment me less.

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