Obstacles that Impede Writing

“The Writer’s Idea Book” by Jack Heffron is the book that I am currently reading to help generate ideas for writing.  IT includes more than 400 writing idea prompts which are there to make you think and write.  I don’t think I will be able to follow all 400 prompts because that would be unrealistic, but I will pick the ones that I think will be beneficial to helping me grow.

Now that I am currently employed again, I need to schedule a necessary time to write.  It may even start out as only 5 minutes a day and I’ll double that at the beginning of each new week.  It’s all about creating a habit of writing and not procrastinating.  If I skip a writing session I will need to come up with a reason why and find a way around that reason.  It won’t be easy but I’m determined to change my life.

When it Comes

Creativity came to me usually during early morning hours or late at night. I would find myself immersed for hours on end, especially on days off from work. My emotions seemed to be close to the surface when I was in a relationship or just getting over one. While I was working the graveyard shift in the produce department of a grocery store I would come up with poetry ideas in my head and would have to rehearse them over and over in my head so I wouldn’t forget them.

Acknowledging Difficulty II

Writing is not easy. Sometimes the ideas and words just aren’t there. It can be frustrating when you have a desire to let something out of the cage but can’t. You don’t know what’s trapped inside of you until you jump in and look.

I use to spend countless hours with pen and paper, sometimes in front of the computer. It would come to me or it wouldn’t but I would sit and ponder anyway. It could be line after line, a phrase, or even just a single word that would start something. I just had to write it down. I need to have the determination and dedication I once had. I think I need to make a writing schedule for myself and stick with it.

Acknowledging Difficulty

I don’t really know what triggered me to start writing many years ago.  All that I do remember is that I was dating a girl who somehow unlocked my emotions and a desire to express them.  One day I just started writing words and thoughts down.  Some of those words were feelings that somehow came to the surface and had to be released.  I began writing phrases that eventually turned into forms of poetry.

Writing almost became an obsession of mine.  I had to write, I had to find and learn new words and meanings.  Pen, paper, and the computer keyboard became the means of letting out my emotions.  It was amazing, exciting, and quite rewarding.  I was quite impressed with my new found talent and it continued to greatly improve over the years.

The last few years I’ve lost touch with my innermost feelings and haven’t been able to write or have any inspiration.  I took to the books and started reading more and more.  I still have the desire but I just have to find the characters and stories.

Raison d'être

I’m currently in the process of rediscovering myself as a writer and mastering my imagination.  I’ve been reading some books about writing and developing ideas and in these books are some challenges to spark some creative combustion.  I feel that I have buried or lost a talent that once possessed me and my ambition to unearth the treasures that are within my mind has become an unyielding aspiration of mine.  This blog is the catalyst by which I shall, hopefully, unlock new and existing ideas.  It will be a chronicle, of sorts, to help me cultivate my love of writing.