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Jackie ♦ November 12, 2007 ♦ 2 Comments

I’ve been trying not to think about the contests my poems are in now but have been unable to move onto other writing projects.  It’s very rare for me to have nothing going, nothing on the front or back burners, but I’m just feeling very still, writing-wise.  Not frozen, not necessarily blocked, just poised in mid-air, waiting to move forward but not knowing just where or how yet.

I don’t feel this way in the rest of my life– in fact, things in my life are moving along at quite the breakneck pace!  But my writing self is hovering in the air like a hummingbird, waiting to find some way to land or a new horizon to fly towards.

(That last metaphor was kind of overwrought, but hey, I’m blogging about writer’s block!  Cliches and overwrought-itude are kind of required)