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This Thing Called ‘Writer’s Block’

By Tom Mach

January 13, 2008

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This Thing Called 'Writer's Block'

By Tom Mach

It's sort of like lying on your couch watching

TV while the guilt of not writing comes running

through your brain at full gallop

and ideas pounce into your head when you don't even see

them coming. Isn't that write?

I mean you go to a bookstore, blinded

by the kaleidoscope of author offerings,

and you visualize checks made out to you

with lots of zeroes at the end

and writers chauffeured in white limos

and you tingle with indignation

as you murmur "I could have written that."

But you don't

And never will

- Author Tom Mach lives in Lawrence.

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  1. 13 January 2008
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    bearded_gnome (Anonymous) says…

    correct. the best ideas naturally come when you absolutely can't write them down.

    I was hoping for a more direct focus on the title subject, the experience of writers' block and not the result, but this is fine. there's a great idea:
    write a poem about writers;' block. oh, I can't because I have it, or I don't because I'm posting. does posting count? should it count, or is it mental fast food? it used to be writers' block was the “empty page” syndfrome. now, with virtual documents, there's less texture and geography with the writers' block.

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