When Your Inspiration Leaves You High and Dry
There are days when your mind goes blank and your inspiration leaves you high and dry.
After a long day sitting at the key board writing article after article for my ghostwriting job, I long to just take a few minutes and write something, anything, on a topic I choose, in any manner that I choose, and to see my name of that article.
I wait for the moment when my pending box is deplete and I can leave the days work behind. When that time finally comes, I pull up a clean blank page and …..nothing. All of a sudden my mind is empty or else it is full of words such as bake ware, drapery material, and baby bottles.
So, I sit staring at the empty page willing an idea to come to mind. It is at these times that I have to reach deep inside myself to find some shred of inspiration, some small kernel of an idea that could, with proper nourishment spring forth into a thoughtful and articulate article.
Sometimes, inspiration does hit and I can fire off an article in no time at all, my fingertips barely able to keep pace with my thoughts. Other times, I find myself searching the internet, looking through the newspaper or a magazine, or even a recipe book, hoping against hope that something will reach out and grab me.
On those days it seems like every subject in the universe has been thoroughly covered a thousand times, that my mind has become a desert, and that my fingertips would be better off playing piano keys than a computer keyboard.
It is in those moments that I know it is truly time to take a rest from my labors, go for a walk or watch a movie. Give my mind the rest it so badly needs, and my inspiration a chance to renew. It is then I tell myself it is better to write again another day.
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November 26th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Yes, better to rest and rejuvenate the brain cells.
November 26th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Think we go through creative cycles so I try to write down ideas when I have them for times when I have no inspirations.
November 26th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes shuting down to write another day is the only thing you can do. The computer will be there in the morning.
November 27th, 2009 at 9:44 am
Yes We can take a break from writing but not live without our PC
November 27th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
I hate writer’s block. I had a run of it just a few weeks ago, now I have so many ideas but not enough time. I wrote my first flash fiction today, made up from a brief story I heard about the death of a stalker. He died in his car while stalking his girlfriend and that is all I know of the story. I wrote the first draft in my head while resting in bed on Thanksgiving morning. I am not sure where it all came from but I liked it so I wrote it. It is a different venue for me.