I have had my fair share of "writer's block" in the past, but that has not been the case this week. I have sat down at least a half-dozen times to write this week and have had many "fragmented" thoughts that have made one huge muddled mess!!! I have hit the delete button all week rather than saving my drafts.
The inspiration and effort have been there, but the results have been lacking, in my opinion.
One of my heroes in ministry and life is John Maxwell. His advice to writers is to write. Profound, I know. Unless you put the pen to paper (or in my case, the fingers to the keyboard) you really have nothing to work with.
I have violated the key rule of writing (deleting rather than saving drafts and reworking them after creating some space) and am starting over this weekend.
I am planning to do a "journal dump" over the next couple of days and write down all of those random thoughts that I have been unsuccessfully trying to explore! There's some stories that need to be shared and thoughts that must get out.
When it comes to me and writing, I am normally "laser focused" and know what I want to write about well before I sit down to type. This week has been more of a "shot gun" scattered experience that has been difficult to translate from my mind to the keyboard.
We'll see what happens and hopefully the blog will have much more to say next week than it has had this week!
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