... Writer's Block! Part 2

CONtinuing from preceding Post, I just came back from an one-and-half-hour BFast (yeh, not too fast!) with a gOod friend, recently acquired, who also happens to be a writer – a published one!

No, I did not indulge in another CONtinental, lest my Socialist comrade complain I'm too profligate, or is it bourgeosie? --but I digress!

Her name, no, not the socialist, it's mGf, is CATHERINE DE COSTA.(I'll tell more about myLady in coming post, OK?) I relished an early morn Oriental meal -- fastcooked mee,prawn cracker, kuey teow plus sotong, and sambal -- just cost RM2.00 (compared with RM3.30 for a CONti...)plus a teh-si (yes, rhymes a bit with Desi!), followed by Nescafe-Pok kurang manis!, then another Chinese iced tea -- Wow, whatdacombi!, cost another 80sen + RM1.20 + 30 sen, a real cheapo in heavenly Seremban compared with devilish Bangsar-- sorry, I digress somemore.

This excursion for an hour plus did do the trick of overcoming my block; lucky for me, Cathy and her “significant half” (that’s the term I use to call her husband!) were generous with their time and thoughts, for free, and we exteneded our slow Bfast to another 45 minute minutes ... and it definitely was time and fellowship well spent. Accounts largely for this flow ... like iced limau tea on a hot summer's day.

The result follows:

On coming back, I started penning this Part 2, arriving here in less than 30 minutes from the first line - WoW, I even surprised meself. Pretty fast because the past three days yielded hardly the first few paragraphs, and it was so “poorly” written on review just now.

The lesson to share is that making highly conscious efforts to psuh oneself, the ideas or words just won’t come. If the words come, they come in spurts, like water from a chooked pipe, not swimmingly, which means flowing smoothly and without effort, and enjoying while doing it!

That’s a problem we refer to as suffering a writer’s block I've overcome, for now. Take my word for it, it makes a victim of the most prolific of writers, again and again. For while God gave us each a Beautiful Mind, it is all ways a mysterious gift. It works in ways that no scientist has properly mapped its pathways, permutations of thought patterns, AND it can even go haywire, go see Nobel laureate Dr John Nash! who has such A Beautiful Mind.

Yes, indeed, often in the writing profession, the practitioner can hit a blank wall, and however hard he tries, he can’t put meaningful words to paper, or nowadays, onto the computer screen. please don't visit me again, Mr Writer's Block, I need to earn my daily bread and butter, and once a while only, indulge in a CONtinental; Miss Sabrina Tan, joining me soon, no, not the Writer's Block Club, just the CONtinenta, remember?

Now at 10.26am, Light&Easy ending with " ... Have you ever seen rain ...Coming down, sunny day...?"(Yes, Catherine DC, like Desi, also believes with music in the background, constantly, it's a tonic to smooth over Writer's Block!)