Writers Block. Is it possible to get Writers Block when all you write is a small blog. Would that even be called Writers Block, I guess a more appropriate phrase would be Blog Block. Blog Block. It sounds so silly, I mean say it out loud several times it sounds like you are clucking like a chicken Blog Block. Does such a phrase even exist? Well, to me it does.
A few months ago, what I thought was going to be a simple thing was asked of me. Could I write a blog for Megan’s Madams? Maybe write one a week, if nothing else, two a month. I like to write. I admire Megan Mullally, I thought “no problem”. Well, I ran into a problem. Blog Block. I wrote a few blogs. Maybe I didn’t get them done as close together as I would like, but at a pace I found respectable. Then BAM! Blog Block. I couldn’t think of anything to write. I mean I could have written gibberish (and if you think that’s what this is, think how bad it would have been if I considered it gibberish) but I wanted to make some sort of sense, maybe be mildly amusing. I couldn’t come up with anything.
Looking back, there were plenty of opportunities. Megan was on “The View”. It was a very entertaining interview, she was very funny as usual. There was plenty to talk about there, but wait, no there is a block in my brain. If you think of your brain as little chambers, then the chamber in mine marked “writing ability” was sealed, padlocked, and had bars in front of it. Nothing was getting through. Megan and her husband Nick did an interview for New York Magazine accompanied by a photo of them posing nude with strategically placed grapes. Oh my gosh, this was it, this had to break through the door. No, sorry still blocked. It was hopeless. I mean Megan did a kick ass interview, accompanied by a kick ass photo and I couldn’t think of anything to say. I kept walking around the house repeating, Blog Block, Blog Block, Blog Block. My husband finally asked me why I was clucking like a chicken. In my frustration I explained that I had promised to write a blog and I wasn’t living up to that promise. I was Blog Blocked and there didn’t seem to be a solution. He calmly looked at me and said, “When you take a problem and make the problem into such a big problem that a solution is a problem, the solution is the problem.” After asking him to speak English, he said “Write about not being able to write”.
So, here it is, my blog about not being able to write a blog. Did it work? Is my Blog Block gone? I anxiously await the next Megan Mullally print interview or television appearance to see if I am able to write about it and make sure my Blog Block is gone forever. I hope it is, I am getting tired of shooing the neighbors chickens out of my yard.
~Jamie (rut999)
w waiting to be filled with the tracks of life. No wait, as I have gotten older I don’t like to look at the New Year as snow so much anymore. Snow represents slipping and falling on your behind, or sliding down the driveway and ending up face first in a pile of it as your sisters point and laugh. No snow does not represent the New Year for me anymore. The New Year is a chance for new and exciting things. If you are a Megan Mullally fan, the new year will provide you with several chances to see her, both live and on the small screen.
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A lot of times anticipation outshines reality. Haven’t you ever really looked forward to a weekend event or a night out with great anticipation only to have the reality of it fall flat on its face? So it was with great anticipation and some trepidation that I watched Megan Mullally’s guest spot on “Parks and Recreation”. I am very pleased to say, this time reality out shone anticipation.