Writer’s Block

I’ve got ideas coming out of my ears. I’ve got that many ideas, they are all mixing together, and I don’t know where to begin. I decided to use a couple of those sites that provide prompts, to give me a gentle nudge in the direction of what to write about, but I took that a bit far and looked at far more prompts than I needed. So now, as well as having too many of my own ideas to write about, I’ve now added other people’s ideas too.

The obvious thing to do would be to write a list of all of my ideas (and those that I have now acquired) and choose one to run with. However, that would take up too much time, and I would then need to rush whatever it was that I was writing about, and I don’t think I would enjoy rushing writing a blog post. Nd besydes myy tiping an speling wuld bee afectd. I could just type away, and see where the momentum would take me, but that may end up with a jumble of random words that don’t make any elephant at all. Although Sagittarius angel coathanger green is wigwam. 🙂

Several of my previous posts have been written at will, as it were, and they did tend to flow after the first or second paragraph, so perhaps it may be a good idea to start the post in the middle, or at the end, and then go back and write the beginning later. I’m using this order when I’m writing about the events that have happened to me in the way I post, so one moment I’m back in a long distant memory, the next I’m writing about today, and then I’m back to an event last month, and the next post may be about something I’m planning on doing in the future. Writing in this order may be a bit confusing all in one post though, so it’s necessary to keep track of what happened when. Structure is all important.

I’ve also looked at some pictures in books, comics and magazines to try to decide what to write about, and I’ve peered out of my windows to see if any light switches on in the creative aspect of my mind by what I saw. The light’s there – only it is just highlighting the amount of ideas that are in my mind (and building by the second with everything I look at) and not making one particular idea jump out at me.

I’ve listened to my favourite music, watched my favourite video clips, remembered offensive things that people have said to me, reminisced about wonderful places I have visited and imagined places where I want to go to. They’re all there to be written about one day, but what should I write about today?

I could do a list of all of my favourite things, foods, people, clothes, music, smells… but I can’t think of where to begin. Which would be my first favourite down to my tenth favourite. Aaaarghhh… does it matter???

I could actually write about me, but I tend to do that anyway. Whatever I write about is from my perspective, and I may see things completely different to someone else – but I’m still writing about about me. I could ‘borrow’ excerpts of other people’s posts, or snippets from their website (full credit will be given) and then add a line or two from my point of view. I could describe my favourite drink in mind-numbing detail, well, how could you elaborate on ‘nice’?

Or, I could just waffle on about the first thing that comes to mind. Which isn’t really very easy when I’ve got ideas coming out of my ears. I’ve just given them a real good stir within my mind, and now they’re all over the place.

OK, I’ve made a decision. I’ll write my next blog post tomorrow. I can’t write anything when my creativity is blocked like this…