Surfing Poorly
I don't surf but I think of the loss of the writing habit when measured in more than a few days to be similar to missing the wave; I'm just not paddling fast enough or I have picked the wrong wave to go after or I'm not one with the water or lets face it I shouldn't be on a surfboard in the first place.
It is never a loss of subject matter or ideas that causes the pause. Sometimes it is embarrassment and extreme self-consciousness, the consciousness which is me seeing me on the surfboard.
This doesn't sound like writers block at all. More likely the problem is that you're using a metaphor involving
*you* wearing shorts. Howz about writing naked or surfing in your jeans ?
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I don't surf but I think of the loss of the writing habit when measured in more than a few days to be similar to missing the wave; I'm just not paddling fast enough or I have picked the wrong wave to go after or I'm not one with the water or lets face it I shouldn't be on a surfboard in the first place.
It is never a loss of subject matter or ideas that causes the pause. Sometimes it is embarrassment and extreme self-consciousness, the consciousness which is me seeing me on the surfboard.
- jimlouis 1-18-2001 12:29 am
This doesn't sound like writers block at all. More likely the problem is that you're using a metaphor involving *you* wearing shorts. Howz about writing naked or surfing in your jeans ?
- bill 1-18-2001 3:01 pm [1 comment]