Monday Miscellany-Writer Slump
Sometimes words don't work the way I want them to. I line them up in the order that my native speaker intuition and Mr. Strunk says is correct, but those nouns and verbs lie there--flat, dull, pedestrian. Once in a while a cliche creeps in. That's when I know it's time to refresh my brain. Luckily my body goes along with plan.
Here's what they manage to do together when they're on a writing break.
They take a walk along of coast in the morning
They're awed by feather-petals.
They admire Bliss, dancing in San Francisco.
And with that, the body carries the mind back to the desk and the writing continues--words juicier and plumb, plot more sparkly and characters that don't just walk through the story. How do you recharge? What helps you out of a writing slump?Sliding on the Edge, C. Lee McKenzie, WestSide Books, Spring '09
Here's what they manage to do together when they're on a writing break.
They take a walk along of coast in the morning
They're awed by feather-petals.
They admire Bliss, dancing in San Francisco.
And with that, the body carries the mind back to the desk and the writing continues--words juicier and plumb, plot more sparkly and characters that don't just walk through the story. How do you recharge? What helps you out of a writing slump?Sliding on the Edge, C. Lee McKenzie, WestSide Books, Spring '09
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