Writer’s Block :(

So I was on this writing spree with poetry spilling out of my ears and nose, with colorful words swirling like butterflies around my head… in a haste to pen it down...I had ‘unlocked my mind’ and very pleased with the results since words and more words came pouring out of the key hole. A free-flowing writer in the making Voila! What a burst of creativity I had! I was going great guns and had the vocabulary and dictionary swirling around in my head along with ideas and my muse was the ‘keyboard’.

The world was a wonderful place and I couldn’t ask for a better way to spend my time. But then most good things come to an end I suppose. The key that unlocked my mind got lost and subsequently the door got shut or so it seemed and no words were coming out in a hurry, let alone an idea for story. The brain went into a barren desert mode. Coupled with my computer crashing leaving me helpless and not in possession of my valuable writings anymore… I was destined to die a sudden ‘writers death’. With no ‘Blogprint’ or ‘Sisterly Rhymes’ medals adorning my mantelpiece there wasn’t much to show for a writing prowess either. Sigh!

So I start writing again with trepidation and what comes out is an essay on “India vs Bharat”…FlimFlam2 was so puzzled with my essay that all I got from him was an exclamation mark!! To leave him speechless is not a good sign. There’s got to be a magic formula...E=MC2 is not working for me.

To make matters worse the comments I was leaving around was not noteworthy compounding the problems by adding on a ‘comment block’ to my dubious distinction…

 D_W says ‘Enjoyed it thoroughly’ is a ‘no no’ for a comment and the Sulekha team is working on unraveling the secrets behind it :) I am thinking of good ways to comment wisely saying politically right stuff and also meaningful, profound statements! 
Lately diabetic comments are not acceptable… so I am working on the “angry young woman” comment though my temperament is unsuitable for it and I am not young either …. 
Would ‘very nice’ be appropriate? Would giving a ‘thumbs up’ emoticon suffice? Usage of emoticons in comments hasn’t worked for me in the past since I ended up using the wrong one accidentally (used a happy face on a sad blog) I am working on it I promise!

So I am currently pondering over what the ‘treatment regimen’ is for curing the ‘block’.  Maybe reading more books would give me ideas, I think and start reading more voraciously than before… only to find that my brain has been sufficiently addled by John Grisham’s stories to Nora Roberts romances mixed into a pot pourri with Obama’s ‘Audacity of hope’ which sent out a clear message that I was being audacious enough to attempt writing. So I went into an introspection mode and came up with ‘nothing’! Zilch!

I had ideas for stories but just couldn’t come up with good endings. They were all fizzling out into a heap of incoherent non-enders. Poetry is stuck ‘out on a limb’ and half the people on Sulekha say they don’t understand poetry (can’t blame them…even I don’t understand what I write sometimes )…I went ahead and wrote a few lines anyway but what came out was a pathetic 5^th grader rhyme  that I dragged into the trash bin and left its body there. My son writes better than that I thought.

So I stare out of the window wondering how long does a ‘block’ usually last? A day, a week or more perhaps? In the meantime I am subscribing to the ‘eat more carrots’ theory in the hope that it will rejuvenate my ‘writing abilities’ that I claim to have. 


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(All in Jest please...not meant to offend anyone here :)