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Is it Writer’s Block or Something More Serious: the Curse of Insatiable Curiosity
Why is it so hard for me to write? I feel like there is a big fat block sitting somewhere in the center of my creativity.
I start paper after paper and work on them furiously for a couple of hours and then discard them. Of course, my intent is to return and complete it but that can take days or weeks or months.
There’s just so much information and learning going on all the time! I have an insatiable curiosity for knowledge and an unfulfilled longing to share my knowledge with others.
And so I write, day after day…but I rarely publish.
Rather, the stories and interviews and audio recording transcripts just pile up in my aptly-titled writing folder.
Looking at them is disheartening. Each one stares back at me like a little glimmer of failure and irrelevance.
Not good enough.
I am saddened, too, by the wasted potential in the content of the writings themselves. Not for my own success or relevance but because the information on those pages is meant to be in the hands of people. Not filed away, discarded and unfinished.
When the writing comes…when it really flows, for me it is an energy that comes out of my hands. My eyes kind of glaze…
