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6.25.2006 ||> Blocked
Tony Pierce said something the other day that got to me. I can't find it to save my life, or I would quote, but he talked about writers block. Every writer gets to the point of not being able to right. The reason, he says, is that we are simply not writing about what we want to be. If we are afraid of writing about a topic out of fear that our friends and family will get upset, we should get a venue that they won't see and write what we want to write about.
I do live with that censor over my head. There's wanting to not get fired, or writing in the heat of anger and having those word thrown back at me at another time. There's times when I feel upset and people call me to try to talk me out of doing something harmful to myself (although I never would). My favorite is when people take what I say completely out of context (oftentimes because I don't supply any). When writing about these topics consumes me, I won't write, or will write only milquetoast entries that don't have any spark to them.
So is the option then to wait until something else pops into my head? Perhaps. Other writers say just to write anyway, even if it has nothing to do with the topic you want to write about. Perhaps that is a way as well.
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