When Writing Feels Like Wringing Words From My Brain
Some thoughts that I think about writing.
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“A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.” (Eugene Ionesco)
“Think, think, think” (Winnie the Pooh)
I’ve been thinking about writing. This week it seems that my life consists more of thinking about writing than of actually writing.
I think I am a writer. I think, therefore I write. Is that right? If I write what I think, will I write something right?
Winnie the Pooh said, “I am a bear of very little brain.” His brain was stuffed with fluff. The human brain is about 77% water. That could explain why I get my best ideas while I am in the shower. While the shower water is running, my thoughts seem so profound. Surely if I wrote down those thoughts, I would soon grow rich from my words, even writing for Triond. But alas, those profound thoughts go down the drain with the water.
Sometimes writing feels like wringing words out of my brain. Maybe my gray matter is drying up. My fourth grade teacher, Miss Friesen, taught us about gray matter. She said that as we get older, the roots of our hair grow in deeper. If they hit gray matter, they turn gray. If they hit a vacuum, our hairs fall out.
If I can remember a joke that my fourth grade teacher told me, why can’t I remember all of those profound thoughts that I think I thought in the shower this morning?
I think these are all the thoughts I can wring out of my brain today.
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February 26th, 2010 at 10:05 am
I know how you feel, Karen. I seem to have covered every subject under the sun through my poems. I just can’t think of new subject matter. You still managed to write this piece, thank goodness.
Christine
February 26th, 2010 at 10:35 am
I sometimes get too many thoughts, too many things I want to write..and not enough time. .then I forget half my ideas…
February 26th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
nice share..interesting and well composed.thanks!!
February 26th, 2010 at 1:57 pm
I love the quote of Eugene Ionesco. Great write!
February 26th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
I’m sitting here chuckling. Thank you for expressing the thoughts of so many of us in such a fun way.
February 26th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Hehehe…I’ve been writing for as long as I’ve been breathing Karen…my workmates are real intellectuals and I get most of my inspiration and thoughts from the conversations we have…and the beautiful Australian countryside around my home
February 26th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Karan, I do my best thinking when I’m on the treadmill Or when I’m sleepy or dropping off to sleep. I never remember later. Isn’t it so aggravating?
February 27th, 2010 at 12:08 am
It’s hard. I often have all these ideas in the morning, then go to work, then come home, make dinner, spend some time with my husband and dogs, watch a little TV sometimes and by the time I have maybe a few minutes to write, I am either too exhausted or it’s time for bed or both…
February 27th, 2010 at 4:22 am
Nice piece….well written….
February 27th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
great share
March 2nd, 2010 at 10:59 am
“For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing”. It seemed so true.
March 6th, 2010 at 7:21 am
I think once I tap into my creativity, it’s like opening a flood gate sometimes. LIFE has a way of shutting us down in that regard and if we don’t keep up with it, we lose it.
Best to put the thoughts down on paper. “Flood control” I think!
March 27th, 2010 at 10:29 am
nice!