TheBanyanTree: I Stopped Writing

[Laura]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Monique Colver <monique.colver at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know why I'm telling you this. I don't know why I'm thinking of it
> at all. For some time now, maybe a couple of weeks? I haven't written
> anything. Not a grocery list, not a memo to self, not any of my assigned
> tasks, like the blog I was to do for my networking group that I never did,
> and now I'm behind on yet another one because we went and had another
> meeting.
>
> Maybe I've just decided not to spend my time on something that is rather
> useless. Before you tell me it's not useless, let me disagree with you. I'm
> not usually a disagreeable sort, but you do have to admit, with
> approximately every other person on the planet writing their own stories,
> one less person isn't likely to be noticed.


No, really.  I would have noticed.  Eventually.  I'm slow that way.  I tend
to think along the lines of "real life got busy and she's just taking a
break", instead of "she's died over night and no one noticed".  You happen
to be one of the millions of people on this planet whose writings I bother
to read.

Perhaps your brain has just gone limp.  Sometimes it becomes more trouble
than it's worth to put thoughts and feelings down in a readable form.  I go
months without being able to put two words together in any form that makes
sense.  The rest of my life goes on as normal, I just don't write.  I don't
avoid writing, in fact I'll sit down to write something, and all of a sudden
it's two hours later, I've lost yet another game of Spider, and I'm ready
for bed.

I don't worry about it.  Eventually, something equivalent to Brain Viagra
will kick in, and I'll write again.  Hopefully the same will happen with
you.

When it does, if your vision goes all blue, or if you experience a writing
session which lasts more than four hours, call your doctor.

-- 
Laura
wolfljsh at gmail.com
http://wolfsinger.wordpress.com