I am on a mission, once and for all to stop my writer's block. First, let me start at the beginning. I used to enjoy writing, since I was 12 or 13 years old and my english teacher introduced me to writing things other than required essays for my classes. She taught us to write limericks, odes, open our imaginations and give our own spins to the standard fairytales, ie. cinderella, little red riding hood. I enjoyed it and she opened up my appreciating for writing. It opened up further when I was in high school and I took a creative writing course. It was my favorite class. I wrote more poems and short stories, even a short episode of a current tv show. I never shared my stuff, I was too embarrassed, I only did it when I had to, even yet someone else read it, I was not comfortable reading in front of the class. The ones my colleague read, people seemed to like, and it seemed it was the only thing I was good at, so I thought, "hey, maybe I can be a writer, so I majored in english in college and took another creative writing course and a poetry course. Again, it was my favorite class. I wrote some of my best work in that class: a soap opera-ish play about a woman who comes home early from work to surprise her husband with a candle light dinner, only to find him cheating on her with a friend and she files for a divorce. A fictional story during the time the Vietnam war first breaks out in the 50s, I never really finished them, they were kind of forced endings. The second one may be a novel, as well, who knows, I probably will never finish it. But those were good times, when the creative juices just kept on flowing and never stopped, of course it helped that I had a teacher who kept throwing out ideas. I don't have that any more. I came close a few years back, when I got an idea about a group of horses at a fair. They were tied to a contraption and all they do is walk in circles while little children ride on their backs. I felt bad for the horses, so I tried to imagine what they were thinking about their situation and what they think about humans paying money for their kids to ride on their backs for a couple of cycles. That is the last idea that has come to me since.
I don't know how this is going to work, I haven't really figured it all out yet. I was thinking, maybe use a random prompt I find on Pinterest, one that gives me ideas and just...write. I tried something similar to get me to start journaling last year, obviously it didn't work. Hopefully, I get a different outcome. Wish me luck!
