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Wednesday Oct. 3, 2018

I’ve come across several pieces lately – not on purpose, just in the course of reading things and feeds I regularly scan – about writers’ block. It seems to be a spectrum of experiences defining that which is a broader subject than if you laid writers end-to-end across the country and which for many writers must be the only way they’ll get laid …

But I digress.

This perceived blockage of word flow from brain to page seems to be the problem – or, I wonder, is it a failure of words being produced in the brain?

It is as if the deaf mute person had nothing to say rather than limitations on how to say it.

If the ‘blocked’ writer can’t write, does that mean their thoughts are blocked? I think not. I think they just don’t want to put rambling words on some page for fear someone might read that flowing excrement and attribute it to them – which is why we don’t have thought police in our society. Or do we? Not a week goes by that we don’t have someone hoisted on their own petard for what they said out loud once, or tweeted – not limited to celebrities, politicians and journalists … it’s everywhere

P.S.: a little something to tickle your funny-bone: I have a new definition for PESSIMISM: I checked the ‘best before date’ on my latest Viagra box (they contain only 4 tablets) – Exp. 09-2022 – which must imply the manufacturer thinks sex for old people is an annual affair …


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