Writer UnBlocked
As we know, I am a wordsmith, but even someone as eloquent verbose as I can suffer the occasional blockage of the writing.
While I am a poet, sometimes, I don’t know it.
(Crucify me for this joke later, okay? I’m just warming up!)
Alas, here are some of my tricks for overcoming writer's block, presented in a way that is intended to be a visual feast for your eyeballs but may just be too much (oh well). Plus, all of the notes on my desktop and phone that I wrote during the last six weeks of mental wordlessness.
the idea graveyard (ghosts live here)
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the idea graveyard (ghosts live here) |
“How many digital sticky notes are too many digital sticky notes? If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did it even make a sound? Both are questions that matter a lot to me, but other people do not seem to think about such trivial matters.
’Trite’ was the word of the day on my thesauras app...”
That’s the Type of Shit That’ll Make You say, ‘Hell Yeah'
Cement trucks
Digging a hole
Iconic Middle Children
Kira in the hit show, Reba (textbook)
Alex, from Modern Family (the female rage version of middle child)
Alex in Wizards of Waverly Place
Pheobe from the early 2000’s classic show Charmed (not technically the middle child to start the show but she embodies the spirit and becomes the middle child (spoilers))
Me
“Things I’ve Watched Lately & My Reviews”
Weapons (a movie about nepotism and indoctrination, in a very roundabout way)
Longlegs (took me until the very end to realize it was the same man who stole the Declaration of Independence)
Zoolander
Blades of Glory (almost the hardest I’ve ever laughed, second only to when I first watched Hot Rod)
Anchorman
Anchorman 2 (does not hold up)
“Puppet guy and puppet (hot)”
“Things That, If I Owned Them, Would be Signs that I’ve Won the Lottery”
The email campaign feature on Squarespace
2 Roombas, so they get the vacuuming done quicker and don’t have to be on and making noise for as long
A horse-sized and -shaped cat tree for Gus
The giant pencil lamp and/or every other Bauhause niche decor item on my Pinterest
“I was thinking about buying a reading from an Etsy witch, but I went with the Craig’s-List-version instead, where I joined a TikTok live of a psychic reader and asked her if I was going to be successful, and she ignored me and did not do the reading.
There were 4 other people in the live...”
