Writers Block

Feeling a bit of the old writers block as I sit here on a crisp wintry morning here in my secret volcano lair on the northern outskirts of Brisbane.  I also have a rotten cold that is doing my head in, which is probably why I am struggling to assemble a cogent and comprehensible stream of consciousness. 

Nevertheless, and as is often the case I use the ability to blog (or to write in my journal) as a prompt to lead me to write.  As per the advice I have dispensed to others, 'stuff is always a good place to start,' along with 'physician, heal thyself.'  Grrr, me and my bloody sound advice coming back to bite me on the arse.  Often it is one of the simplest ways to overcome writers block for someone like me, to just start talking about the everyday and the mundane, assembling my thoughts on the page.  Talk about the day, the weather, how you are feeling, how the people in your life are going.  Obviously being a public forum maybe we need to leave out the more intimate details or embarrassing anecdotes (unless they particularly emphasise the point and drive the narrative) and all names will have to be changed to protect the innocent (although no one is truly innocent).  Always remember that real life is always far more interesting than fiction but that the truth should never get in the way of a good story, although everyone has a story to tell.

In the end I think that is it, to write, you have to know your subject.  And what subject would you know better than yourself?  Tell your story, it's unique.  In the meantime, I am off to take more cold and flu medication and rest.  Regularly scheduled programming will resume soon.