I remind myself constantly that there is a second part to a post I wrote before on “The Silent Treatment”.
I haven’t been able to do it. I am known for my procrastination.
But more importantly, I am in a peculiar situation now. Unless I get inspired, I cannot get to write the post. I guess, it is a type of writer’s block or a means of finding an excuse but its true.
Try as I might, unless I experience the Silent Treatment first hand, I will not be able to write about it. I will not have the drive to write or the push to complete the post or the pull at my heart’s strings to let others know what I have gone through.
Have any of you bloggers felt this way ? Do you need to get personally inspired before you write ?
I would have thought that it would have gotten easier to post every day as time went by, but fifteen and a half months in, it hasn’t. Sometimes I struggle for hours before coming up with something. It happens.
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So true, April- for me its been well over 24 months and the sad part is that I need to get the ” silent treatment” from someone in order to feel the hurt and write.
How are you keeping, my friend ?
Susie
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I need to give the silent treatment to everyone to sit down and write!
I am pretty well, for the most part. Working a lot because we’ve lost another assistant manager, but it happens. How are you?
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You are so positive, April. I am well but there is an issue hounding me- I will post about it after tomorrow, when I hopefully will have something more to add.
Susie
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Good luck to you, friend.
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Always. I can’t just write because I HAVE TO. I need to get inspiration and then I hit the pen!
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Prajakta, you are a woman after my own heart. Don’t you think we need to be like robots sometimes and be able to write as we planned and not as we feel ?
Susie
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Anytime that I feel mentally challenged with my writing, I take my mind off it and latch onto other things like reading, taking photos, cooking…..
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Good idea. Sometimes you need to feel the pain once more to be able to write and that is so weird, right ? Like,if an abused wife who is a writer wants to write about her experiences, she needs to be abused again, in order to feel the pain and then express her pain in words- weird , I think.
Susie
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[…] A writer and her inspiration: We all have been through the writing mental block one way or the other. How do you find your inspiration? Do share your wisdom please. […]
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The block is real, but not permanent. As you pursue the wall crumbles. Diversion works sometimes. Good writing, Ms.
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Thank you for your comment. There really is a block in one’s inspiration at times.
Susie
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