writer's block
February 13, 2009
- It’s time again at 4 AM to start clicking on the old Tabula Rasa instead of standing at Ticket Window #9, ogling The Yabloids and hoping for a congratulatory e-mail, awarding him a fame he hasn’t earned. It’s time to make the TV wait, for a change; to put down the clicker and back away slowly from the sitcoms [sic] and the alleged mysteries. Open the journal and actually write in it. ...
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January 25, 2009
- Has anyone else been blocked by writing success? It's strange, but I haven't written any fiction since my novel, Landscape with Fragmented Figures, was accepted by Bottom Dog Press back in November. True, I've been busy with proofreading, pre-marketing, etc . . . but I'm getting a little worried that the need to write fiction won't come back. I've written only one poem since news of the ...
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January 15, 2009
- The cold weather outside has the fires inside my heart semi-dampened. My birthday is at the end of this month and it causes me to shudder that I have yet to accomplish the things that I thought I would when my mind and my spirit were more youthful. There are days when I feel more alive and energetic that I ever did. Other days, I still feel as if there is so much more to do. Where is the ...
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January 7, 2009
- With the deadline for What Women Really Want in Bed about two months away, I've officially entered panic mode. I did get a good start last Saturday during a cafe writing date with my co-author, Dana Fredsti, but I spent the first half hour waiting for my laptop to boot up.This afternoon, my son went to spend the night at my (sainted) mother-in-law's house, leaving me about three hours during ...
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January 1, 2009
- One night in my tiny NYC apartment, a friend told me the story of his older brother's death. Feeling not only sympathy for my friend's loss but admiration for the power of his telling, I thought "He's a writer." Later, when he showed me his poetry, published in Pakistan (his native land), I spoke the words I had thought. He responded, "No, if I thought of myself as a writer, I'd ...
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December 13, 2008
- I'm sitting here at my laptop, wondering what topic would be interesting for a second blog entry, and guess what? My mind is blank, which, eureka, instantly becomes a topic. Writer's block has probably been talked and written to death, but on the other hand, it doesn't make it go away. Not much of a problem for a small blog, but major if you're in the middle of a book or long article, taken a ...
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December 13, 2008
- Two friends have complained about writer’s block within the space of one week. They wanted to know how I get around this problem.Well, the truth is that writer’s block is not something I have a problem with, so it could be fairly argued that I’m not the best person to seek advice from. On the other hand, as it isn’t an issue for me, perhaps I’m doing something right--or, more ...
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December 12, 2008
- Reunion of Jackals For some time, I have suffered from the perennial writer's block. However, I thought I should be as good my own doctor as every writer should be. I have been postponing working on a good number of my manuscripts. Actually, truth be told, only 3 books that I penned while in my teens, the later years of my senior high school, to be precise. They were a good write stuff, I ...
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December 5, 2008
- I know some of you are probably thinking, "Huh?" Others are thinking I must be a glutton for punishment. Any writer can tell you that writer's block is not fun. Actually it's about as far from fun as it gets. But for me writer's block doesn't mean I've run out of ideas, it means I've run down the wrong road. Writer's block is my muse's way of telling me, ...
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December 1, 2008
- I am finding more and more that I have difficulty with the basic problem of 'butt in chair' necessary for good writing. This is not to say that I don't have ideas. In fact, I have so many projects I'm working on now that I'm developing a bit of a monogamy problem. What's that second person project, you're jealous of the first three chapters of the novel? What about you magic realism short ...
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