Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Feast or famine
I survived the Dreaded Block.
I used to be able to overcome Writers Block in a fairly short time. Hours or a day or two, maybe. But this last bout lasted six weeks.
It was a very trying time for me. Spiritually confusing, too. Was God not backing my efforts, I wondered. Was something wrong with my story? Was I off track? Had I done something wrong??
Being one of those people who always figures "it's my fault," these were natural questions for me. I prayed with greater intensity, sought out the scriptures more frequently, and reviewed all my motives and concluded that...
I was tired. But also, that I needed that time to reconnect and renew. I am still not sure if it was just that my brain was fried or if the Lord was really trying to nudge me in a better direction, but I feel that the time was not ill-spent.
Thanks be to God for his lovingkindness and faithfulness! I couldn't do it without him. I wouldn't be writing without his initiative.
And I finished an entire chapter in just a couple of days! I guess the Dreaded Block has dissolved and I am, once again, running the race.
Woohoo! :-)
I survived the Dreaded Block.
I used to be able to overcome Writers Block in a fairly short time. Hours or a day or two, maybe. But this last bout lasted six weeks.
It was a very trying time for me. Spiritually confusing, too. Was God not backing my efforts, I wondered. Was something wrong with my story? Was I off track? Had I done something wrong??
Being one of those people who always figures "it's my fault," these were natural questions for me. I prayed with greater intensity, sought out the scriptures more frequently, and reviewed all my motives and concluded that...
I was tired. But also, that I needed that time to reconnect and renew. I am still not sure if it was just that my brain was fried or if the Lord was really trying to nudge me in a better direction, but I feel that the time was not ill-spent.
Thanks be to God for his lovingkindness and faithfulness! I couldn't do it without him. I wouldn't be writing without his initiative.
And I finished an entire chapter in just a couple of days! I guess the Dreaded Block has dissolved and I am, once again, running the race.
Woohoo! :-)
