That’s really a metaphor for my writer’s block. Didn’t get much sleep last night. Sometimes it’s like that. This little skeleton was in someone’s front yard and I would have missed it if I hadn’t been looking down trying to close my phone after taking the picture in the previous entry. I appreciate the subtlety.
I caught a nice little possession flick tonight, The Last Rite. A jerky boyfriend, a shadowy figure in a hat, a few jump scares, some blood but no guts, and demonic conversation without profanity don’t sound like much on the surface, but the film had a gnawing tension. If you’re into very dark possession flicks like The Pope’s Exorcist, you might find it a little bland, but there’s levels to this stuff and I’d say it’s a good starter possession flick.
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I give myself the weekends off from writing. In theory that’s the day I just do notes and research and line up projects for the week. To keep my blog active on the weekends, most of my weekend posts were written mid-week or they’re from my ‘bank’ and I date them accordingly. The funny thing is, halff the time I go on and write anyway. I think you need to give yourself some time to refill the well and that’s how I do it.
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I think part of it is that I’m a journalist, so I write all the time. But it’s not creative or even a labor of love. In fact, it’s downright draining because I write about mental health and substance use disorders, so my weekday life is consumed with trauma, overdose, and suicide. Good times. Not.
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Ever since the ceiling caved in during the Texas freeze in 2021 I feel like my writing has been frozen. (Right now, I’m going through a bunch of dental work and pain is making my brain not work. Writer’s Block eventually passes. Or so I’m told.
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Augh! I’m sorry to hear that. And dental work can be awful. I had to have a root canal retreated in May 2022 (dentist missed an entire root, don’t get me started) and it SUCKED.
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