tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208953.post8311456377651557982..comments2008-02-07T12:03:43.939-05:00Sandra Scoppettonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00149336752789641751noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208953.post-58277697756897279112008-02-07T12:03:00.000-05:002008-02-07T12:03:00.000-05:00I'm glad to hear you will still be here.easywriterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01374138206171034733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208953.post-17309377477263440982008-02-07T09:12:00.000-05:002008-02-07T09:12:00.000-05:00Heard years ago a description of writer's block as akin to constipation. This is what it has been for me. About a year and a half ago, I began a book, wrote a hundred or so pages, threw it out, started another, did the same thing. Finally got started on the one I'm doing now, and yes for contract, but it is hard going. Funny thing, when I go back and read what I've written, I find it not bad. I think I'm burned out with deadlines, lack of publisher support, and all manner of life events. I want to write other things, without pressure. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your honesty.<BR/><BR/>Curtiss Ann MatlockCurtissAnnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140990310512839963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208953.post-10817771528232407452008-02-05T18:43:00.000-05:002008-02-05T18:43:00.000-05:00Over the course of my nine months of writing coming only with extreme difficulty -- five of which I spent crawling ever-deeper into the bowels of clinical depression -- it was a great relief to think to myself, "Maybe it's writer's block." (Same with thinking to myself, "Damn, maybe I'm depressed!" after those many months of feeling awful all the time, crying at night, loathing myself, lying in the dark for hours listening to music because I lacked the energy to do anything else ...)<BR/><BR/>I identify strongly with your journal; I've been perusing the archives. I've gone into detail about my depressed period so that you can examine your life for the past several weeks/months/years and see if what I'm saying reminds you of yourself.Andershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17422613068637418511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8208953.post-37108021088203714612008-02-04T12:53:00.000-05:002008-02-04T12:53:00.000-05:00I think it must be something in the atmosphere, because I've been terribly blocked for six months at least. On the other hand, have you considered you might be clinically depressed? Deep depression sucks every bit of pleasure out of the things that normally make life worthwhile. Ask me how I know.Rosina Lippihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10225088772824782200noreply@blogger.com