The Well is Dry

I hate it when the well runs dry.  Its easy to do, hit a point of art where you’ve just created so much recently, you cannot create anymore.  I loathe to admit it, but its happened quite a bit recently.  I think it comes from transcribing so much of Lisa’s book at once.

I typed around 50 pages in a week, on top of writing blog posts, tweeting, doing facebook, talking on social networks to other bloggers, and watching TV with my wife.  By the end of the week, I looked at my blank WordPerfect screen and threw up my hands....



I needed a break, I needed to recharge.  I’ve found the best way to recharge that form of inspiration is to get in a nice quiet place and read.  Reading a great story is so refreshing when you are trying so hard to write something else.  It reminds you of style, it reminds you of the joy you are trying to give to other people.

One of the better things I’ve found, was just to go out and take pictures.  One it gets you out of the house and away from the computer, two you get to be in really beautiful places, and if you’re lucky you can bring a beautiful model like Lisa along, which makes everything even better.

Oddly, the things that I do to escape that help the least seem to be video games and movies.  Maybe it’s the fact that I’m still looking at a screen, but they normally don’t help much.  I think its because they just don’t last long enough, especially movies, but its hard to say.

Music is always a big equalizer, but I’ve been so out of music recently, as I’m enjoying other things in life so much more.  With other people in the house, and so much noise going in, I find it hard to bring in more noise as opposed to silence....  That’s an odd turn for me, considering how much I’ve always loved music.

Luckily, if one can find the write way, the well fills up very easily.  If I get into a good book, by the time I’ve read for an hour I’m ready to write again....  You know, one thing I’ve never done, is reread a book I love....  Maybe I should try that someday....

Anyways, I’m writing this because the well actually is currently empty.  I wanted to get more writing done today, but honestly, this is going to be it.  Halloween has come and gone, and now I'm left with the depressing omnipresence that is Christmas overpowering Thanksgiving.  Luckily my Kindle is loaded with books I need to read so off I go!