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A twenty two year-old's view on life, death,
and Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
and Taylor Swift conspiracy theories
1/6/2014 2 Comments Writer's BlockThis morning I woke up and sat at the breakfast counter at my father's house, a cup of hot tea in hand and my computer open to a blank page, all ready to write a revolutionary blog post for that day, free of run on sentences like this one. I poised my fingers over the key board and....nothing. I had no idea what to write about. I usually have a couple ideas on the little sticky notes that you can "stick" to your desktop for emergencies like this, but suddenly they all seemed like horrible ideas. What had I been thinking when I wrote down those ideas?! They were crap, and I had nothing else. So rather than sitting there, accomplishing nothing and driving myself crazy I closed my computer and got ready for the day ahead of me. I had to run some errands and decided that I would do that first and hopefully something would come to me or something would happen to inspire a subject for this blog post. Little did I know that I would end up writing about not being able to write about anything - but that is beside the point. Lucky for me, when I am driving in the car by myself all I do is think of things that I can write about...it's a wonder I've never noticed it before. It's probably because I have the memory of a goldfish (can you imagine how bad it will be as I get older?) and I think of all these interesting things while I'm driving, but the second I get out to wherever I was going I immediately forget that I was even thinking at all and focus my thoughts on whatever it was that brought me to wherever I was going. Still with me? Anyways, so there I am: driving on the highway, music blasting (though what's ironic is that the music I blast is usually slow and beautiful, but I blast it anyways), and mind wandering when the ideas just bombard me. When my min wanders there is no holding back. I jump from one thought to another before I can develop the first one - or even remember it. At first i just let these thought flutter around in my mind since it's just what my mind does and it didn't draw my attention. But eventually my thoughts wandered their way over to this blog and my worries about how to handle this morning's case of writer's block. Then I realized I was being an idiot. My mind was handing out ideas of what to write about like it was candy and I hadn't even noticed. After that, every time that my mind wandered to something that was actually worth writing about I recorded it. I made a bunch of voice memos, then translated them to the notebook app on my ipod once I had come to a stop. By the time I had finished my errands I had a lengthy list of topics (well, a list of random words that no one would understand but me, but you get the point) of which to write about in future blogs. Now my sticky notes are filled with some exciting things I can't wait to write about! So where does this all lead to, you ask?Well... If you ever find yourself in the horrible situation of running into a case of writer's block think to yourself, when does my mind wander? Does it wander when you are driving like me? Then go for a drive. Does is wander when you brush your teeth? Go brush your teeth. You'll kill two birds with one stone; clean teeth and conquering writer's block. Does it wander when you walk blindfolded down the interstate?...well, best you don't do that anymore... Whatever the case may be, the first step in conquering your blockage is to walk away. Don't think about the fact that you can't think of anything or all you'll do is think about not be able to think about anything. And, dear God, don't ever think about not thinking about not being able to think of anything or that's all you'll be able to think about....get it? Sorry, to sum it all up: just let your mind go blank. Don't try to force it to go anywhere, let it bring you there itself. or buy one of these kits: Oh, and on another note. While I was thinking in the car of all these ideas, a really great song came on and I thought to myself, I should do a "song of the day" on my blog posts. So here it is: Song of the Day:Give Me Love by Ed SheeranThis is by far my favorite song. Ever. please enjoy and leave a comment saying how you like it :)
And just a headf up - most of the Song of the Day's will be by Ed Sheeran...I suffer from a bit of an obsession.. Thank you for reading! Have a great rest of the day, Amanda Lucille
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Katie M
1/6/2014 11:58:51 am
Saw the link to your blog on twitter--and naturally jumped right to it. I love reading, especially when it's quality material written by friends :) Keep it up, I can't wait to read more of what you have to say!! Love you! (since the crib)
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Frankie
1/10/2014 11:24:13 am
This is one of my favorite songs
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