How do you deal with your own version of writer’s block?
I am officially STUCK.
I’ve started and stopped seven or more posts… I’ve sat, I’ve been still… and I’ve rocked my ideas, rocked and rolled them, to and fro. To and fro I’ve kneaded them like strings of play dough… And STILL my post page is blankity blankity BLANK! Tossed some… Kept some… And, per Clarissa Pinkola, American poet, psychoanalyst and post-trauma specialist, I “need do no more.” Obviously SHE didn’t work to a deadline!
I’m solution-searching, looking for a bounce to get me back on schedule. And here’s what I’ve decided to do: I’m going to string together some words of wisdom from OPs (numerous “other people”) and see if I can crochet together the ideas, theirs and mine, into a comforter that will warm my chilled resourcefulness and cover this next post.
So you see, imagination needs moodling – long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering. — Brenda Ueland
Well now, there’s a dandy and creative word to play with: “moodling”. I’ve been doing my share of it; I’ve endured long, inefficient stretches of dawdling, but the “happy idling” aspect escapes me and my imagination stays stuck. So, let me ask you, how could moodling bolster your resilience?? I suspect the thoughtful answer will probably be, “I suppose it could… let me moodle on it a bit.”
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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