Writer's Block

When you're a writer and also a perfectionist and also easily overwhelmed and also have nothing going on in your life to inspire you and also kinda would like to make money someday...a number of crazy things happen to you.  You go through a series of different, and quite extreme, phases, first of all.



You cycle through this over and over, getting a little further each time.  Sometimes you get real writer's block too, just to mix it up, and can't even come up with a bad idea (much less a good one) for like...a month.  Sometimes more.  You find yourself doing writing exercises, reading books, and coming up with all kinds of wacky schemes to try to spark your creativity.

Writer's block can even lead into real depression, which everyone knows sucks.

Eventually that too passes.  Sometimes it needs a little encouragement...

When you don't have Gandalf handy, you do something like listen to music, go for walks, work on your garden, bake cookies...anything that is NOT writing.  Much like falling in love, inspiration happens when you're not looking for it.

And the next thing you know...