Plumber-like, She Approaches the Blockage…

I’m not on one of those insufferable bast…lucky people who, when confronted with a blank page, can just fill that sucker up with an endless stream of words.

Are you listening, Nora Roberts?

My coping strategy for blockage is very plumber-like. If you’ve got a blockage, it’s as important to get the flow going again as it is to determine the blockage. Anyone who’s had to troubleshoot a sewer line knows this at the cellular level.

When I’m working on a writing project, and the pipes lock up, I write some kind of non-project-related bullshit (a comedy bit, an email to a friend, a comment on an online piece, pick one, pick several) until the blockage dissolves and that crack whore I call my muse comes back from her little binge.

That said, some binges last longer than others. In those cases, I stack up useless comedy bits and online comments like cord-wood. And all my friends get plenty of updates…