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Sunday Box Talk – On Artistic Blocks, Fear, and Forward Movement — 2 Comments

  1. (hugs) Blocks are miserable things. They rise, like a giant curb you didn\’t see. Before you know it, you\’re stumbling over one and you\’re down. I experienced blockage yesterday. All of my creative energy was drained, leaving me numb and unimaginative. I fought it, by taking a moment to just play with Pinterest. The stimulus of being confronted by a wide variety of things I love from an outside source picked up my spirits, quickening them. Going out to dinner and a show with my husband completely restored me.. I was actually able to work on a writing project I hadn\’t been able to get to all month last night. Perhaps what we need when we\’re blocked is a change, a stimulus to get us going again. Or perhaps Maria from \’The Sound of Music\’ is right. We need to think of our favorite things. 🙂 The trick is to remember why those things are truly precious to us. Why do we write? If we can truly answer that question, our blocks may transform into doors. Doors we can open to the place, where our creativity awaits us. 🙂