please empty your brain below
|
Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.
Hello lamppost, What cha knowing?
I've come to watch your flowers growing.
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' doo-doo, Feelin' groovy.
Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da...Feelin' Groovy.
Strandman | 06.04.09 - 9:08 a.m. | #
|
Never a truer word, and all that.
You should submit this to Writers Bloc!
Gordon | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 9:14 a.m. | #
|
Time for a well-earned writer's holiday perhaps? I admire your writing and the blog tremendously, but I'm sure no-one would blame you if there were a hiatus. (Except for yourself, of course).
Chris | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 9:31 a.m. | #
|
When in doubt, post pictures of kittens.
Debster | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 9:46 a.m. | #
|
Or 'amusing Google searches'.
When I first started, the challenge was to write something as quick as possible, just off the top of my head, and to trust that it would be reasonable. Cos I was a really really slow writer and I thought it might help. Unfortunately, before too long I started to care a bit too much and - er - well, this post sums it up.
But I think I need to go back to the former. Maybe give it a go yourself?
JonnyB | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 9:56 a.m. | #
|
How can it take so long to write so little? Any normal blogger would have finished ages ago.
I think it was George Bernard Shaw who once started a letter "I am writing you a long letter because I haven't got time to write a short one." Some people understand what he meant. Others don't.
Pedantic of Purley | 06.04.09 - 10:08 a.m. | #
|
I'm sure normal service will be resumed! Your posts are a delight to read....even this one! 
I don't believe you've got 'writers block' for a moment, roll on your next post.
Rodders | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 11:07 a.m. | #
|
Firstly: I relate, strongly. Including the bit about getting slower over the years, and the bit about being more easily satisfied in days of yore.
Secondly: this was a surprise to read, as I've long assumed that you must be an extremely fast writer. How else could you possibly find enough hours in the day to post several hundred words, every single day?
Thirdly: you totally deserve to take a blog-break, should you want one.
mike | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 11:23 a.m. | #
|
I think this is normal. I am a writer and each piece of work is a very painful "birthing" process.
As for writing about life as opposed to feeling you are perhaps not living it...well that is normal as well. We all think the grass is greener. Sometimes it is; sometimes it isn't.
You can only do your best.
Amused | 06.04.09 - 12:47 p.m. | #
|
Simple case of Monday blues.
The sun IS shining- so get out in your lunch break.
The mini skirts are back!!
peter | 06.04.09 - 3:23 p.m. | #
|
You should definetely never sign up for facebook. If email and BBC news distract you enough already, then... wow.. the f/b killer would really suck you in!
geofftech | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 5:44 p.m. | #
|
Yes, I think this is normal too. By coincidence, I joined a writers' group and at the first meeting I attended this very morning I had to write something - the first time (probably since school) - without the aid of Google, cut, paste, undo, delete. I was hopelessly and hilariously lost.
Pamela | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 9:53 p.m. | #
|
Thanks for every word that you write DG, I truly mean that. I hope you continue to find the inspiration to write each day, it's a wonderful talent that you have and a real joy to enjoy reading it.
Cxx
Christian | 06.04.09 - 10:58 p.m. | #
|
I write quickly, don't read it through and publish (then read it through and correct the more glaring typos). But then mine is just a blog and yours is rather more than that. And I found very early on that if I honed and polished I realised quite how trivial what I write actually is, so I stay with the dubious benefit of complete spontaneity.
Z | Homepage | 06.04.09 - 11:18 p.m. | #
|
You're in danger of becoming a real journalist. Sooner or later, any published columnist will write a column about the difficulties of writing a column. Welcome to a distinguished club!
Baldassaro | 07.04.09 - 10:06 a.m. | #
|
Well there is always how accurate is the weather forecast week. You can do that on a regular basis to see if they are improving.
Debster | Homepage | 08.04.09 - 12:11 p.m. | #
|
|
|
TridentScan v2.10.0 | Privacy Policy
|