A Bad Week for Writing

Last night, Gaylord said this was a bad week for writing.  So I guess it's going around, and Ken, this is maybe why there are so few new voices here on the blog.  Then Richard said that sometimes in writing we just have to START.  Thank you, Richard for reminding me of the thing I so often tell my students.  If we don't at least start, we are sure to produce nothing.  And Nicole, yes we can always burn it (unless it's a blog post, in which case we can delete it--but even then it isn't really gone, I know because I once deleted an entire blog site but then realized within two minutes that I didn't want to lose some of those words forever; this wasn't like the journal I kept during middle school that only caused me pain and embarrassment to reread and which finally I did burn:  unwanted memory turned to ash.  I found my discarded blog posts scattered about in google; I told them I was sorry and asked them to take me back, they did.  Writing is very forgiving that way).  

This past week, the writing has not been flowing out of me, so I stopped.  Now it's all backed up in there.  I need some figs as Gaylord suggested.  And this is why I'm posting now.  This is my first fig.  Like Ken, I keep showing up here hoping to hear more of you during the week.  Your words excite me.  There IS so much good writing here and it IS intimidating, but it's also inspiring.  So won't you come out and play?  Please?

Tiffany