Well,
here we are again, another beautiful Sunday afternoon in sunny Arizona
I HAVE NO TOPIC!!! Nothing! (See picture...this is what I do when I can't think of a subject!)
I don’t think this has ever happened to
me before….I always come up with something. Yeah, I might procrastinate and not
write until Tuesday night (in a panic because 1) the topic was elusive and 2) I
need to post for the following day) and I might have several false starts on
several different things I wanted to discuss but I can usually come up with an
entertaining (well, I hope it’s entertaining) subject.
I can do this. After all, I talk to complete
strangers on the elevator and you, dear reader, are no stranger….we’ve visited
before.
So here I sit, my fingers resting on
the keys on home row (I took typing classes in High School), my nails clicking
on said keys, ready to start writing and yet, my mind is devoid of a single
thing. The cursor is blinking—Blink. Blink. Blink—urging me to think faster,
reminding me that I need to WRITE SOMETHING!
Now, when I’m working on one of my
stories and I come to a place where the words just aren’t coming and the brain
has frozen, I can jump ahead to write a future scene. You’ve heard of pantsers
and plotters, right? Well, I’m a puzzler. I write the scenes as they come to me
and then I puzzle them together and hope everything makes sense….which is why
I’ve already written the Big Black Moment as well as the epilogue on my current
work even though I am nowhere near those places. They came to me so they were
written. It works for me for the most part although I can’t tell you how many
times I’ve ruthlessly deleted those scenes because the story took a different
turn.
Hey, will you look at that? A complete
blog post. How do you suppose I accomplished that with no topic? Well, I guess it just goes to prove that I can talk about anything...even if it's nothing.
As
always, happy reading!
Marie
Too funny! That's what an author is told- keep writing no matter what comes out:)
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