writer's block
August 18, 2008
- Nurse: Doctor, come quick! She's got writer's block.Doctor: Ms. Hewitt. Please, tell me your symptoms.Patient: I feel stuffed up and congested in my head. At time I lose my sense of reality. No clear vision, everything is fuzzy. And an annoying vague voice keeps buzzing in my ears. What can it be?Doctor: You're right, nurse. A severe case of Writer's Block.Patient: Oh, the horror! Will I be ...
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August 16, 2008
- First time on redroom.com and am loving it. Already, I have seen a lot of authors, aspiring members and authors-to-be's profiles and its exciting to see all these people intent on the same thing: making books, discussing books, reading books, and publishing. Unfortunately, I am having trouble with my own story I've created and was hoing to publish someday. I am at a Writer's Block for ...
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August 3, 2008
- Much in the same way a conservative hates the SUV drivers who blatantly defy the death of the world at human hands, I hate the casual writer who so easily becomes a success apparently without trying. Maybe hate is too strong a word, but there are times when its kills me. Take Stephanie Meyer for instance. I just watched a Sunday Morning segment about her and she's so young and breathless about ...
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August 2, 2008
- First of allAs much as I don't believe in preumbles, I don't know what to call this. I hate the word "resolution"when it is used as a preposition for one's plans for the year ahead.However, I guess am the victim of such sorts.Today, I just decided that I should recover from the writing comatose that I have slambered in for almost 10 years. Like all comas, we get into them not by ...
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July 28, 2008
- Writer’s block.It sounds pathetic in this day and age. In a world where every Tom, Dick and Sally is frantically typing his or her every waking thought, the quaint notion of writer’s block in a social media environment seems like a poor excuse of sorts.We are in the midst of one of the most fascinating presidential elections in modern history, where, the notion of a black man as front-runner ...
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July 26, 2008
- At first, it's got no manners, eats with its fingers, slurps the soup, kisses with too much tongue. It thumbs through my foolscap of false starts: the moon and both Dippers wheeling through long red slashes, a braid of Xs marking a map to nowhere. It rolls its eyes and lies down with a cool cloth on its forehead. All night, imposters ring the doorbell, darting away like fickle romeos. I answer ...
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July 19, 2008
- This was a tough writing week. I'm working on a project, a longer one and I'm about 16K words into it (by my estimate that's about 50 pages in a published book). I may as well have been writing in a car because I hit a wall. Crash, ouch. Perhaps it is the subject matter, which is myself, that is the problem, but I just couldn't write anymore. After a couple of days of not writing and ...
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June 28, 2008
- I can only kneel with bended knee at the feet of writers such as James Patterson, Stephen King,, Dean Koontz, etc. They carve from silken marble the words and stories that each of us wish could write and eagerly buy to read. How do they do it? It cannot simply be dedication and work ethic. If this was the case, then each and every one of us could spend 10 hours a day before the mesmeric ...
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June 20, 2008
- I've had one of those strange weeks, when good things shower down from the sky like raindrops, and I sit back and ask myself when the other shoe is going to drop. Don't get me wrong, I'm as optimistic as they come. But sometimes, I worry that things are too good. Have you ever had that feeling? And it's funny, because that's not how my week started. On Saturday, after reading Alex's wonderful ...
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June 1, 2008
- My dear friend, Pamela Bone of Melbourne, Australia, lost her battle with multiple myeloma--ironically, given her name, a bone cancer--about five weeks ago. We met online, during her remission, through our mutual work and writings about dishonor killings and human rights. Pammy was an extremely modest, unassuming person. She never told me she was a superstar journalist in Australia. . .I ...
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