Nothing seemed to sound right. I had worked on my writing project for hours. I typed a while, read what I had written. I deleted, rearranged the words and started over. \u00a0Still nothing worked. I had developed a serious case of writer\u2019s block. \u00a0Professional writers tell us amateurs that the remedy for this is to just keep writing whatever comes into your head. The medicine didn\u2019t work. Exasperated, I gave up\u2014at least for the day.<\/p>\n
I began writing and the flow of words seemed to spring from a fountain and arrange themselves on the page.\u00a0 My goal is usually to write two thousand words a day. \u00a0When I finally hit \u201cSave,\u201d the word count was over three thousand.\u00a0 Ecstatic does not do justice the way I felt\u2014I was absolutely giddy. \u00a0I went back to the computer and wrote my frivolous reaction to my accomplishment.<\/p>\n
On a whim, and at the urging of the Clarkesville Writing Society, I submitted it to Writers\u2019 Journal <\/em>as filler.\u00a0 To my surprise and delight, it was accepted and published in the March\/April 2010 issue. Here is my only attempt at poetry\u2014and I use the word \u201cpoetry\u201d lightly.<\/p>\n BREAKTHROUGH<\/p>\n \u00a0 I wrote three thousand words today; the writing was not fun.<\/p>\n My computer called me to itself and held me lest I run.<\/p>\n Characters marched through my head, their deeds in sharp detail.<\/p>\n I saw them cover page by page and felt my fingers sail<\/p>\n Across the keyboard at a pace they never sailed before.<\/p>\n Hardly could they win the race as words came from my store.<\/p>\n I wrote three thousand words today. I\u2019m bragging, yes, I am.<\/p>\n I busted through a writer\u2019s block as thick as Hoover\u2019s Dam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nothing seemed to sound right. I had worked on my writing project for hours. I typed a while, read what I had written. I deleted, rearranged the words and started over. \u00a0Still nothing worked. I had developed a serious case of writer\u2019s block. \u00a0Professional writers tell us amateurs that the remedy for this is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.claramcrae.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}