>>> Thursday, February 16, 2006
Right, I felt like blogging, but I just couldn't get any main idea up for the post.
Looks like my first official case of writers' block. Funny how it never happened back in secondary school when we were still writing essays for exams. Normally, the teacher would beg me to lighten up on the word usage... and to save the trees. Paper comsumption was quite heavy, and ditto for ink consumption. Of course, that lead to heavy brain cell consumption on the part of the teacher... and he/she didn't want that. But I digress.
I've always wondered what causes writers' block. I mean, is there something blocking the flow of ideas that hit the brain? Is it something that runs in the family? Was it something traumatic that happened to you? Was it a sudden blow to the head? Was I plain lazy?
After thinking for the whole of 1 minute, I've reached the tentative conclusion that it happens when you don't have time to daydream. Yes, I'm actually espousing the fact that when you sit in the office and stare into space, you're actually doing constructive work. As a side note, this blog is not available for use in defence when you are actually caught by your boss.
I mean, look at it reasonably - when you daydream, your mind wanders and explores the world in a way you could never do in a physical sense. You could fly, go out of the dream date, have a huge company under you, roll in cash and the works. When that happens, your brain is working to create mental images to go with your ideas - sorta like mental exercises, if you may. With this, you can be pretty much assured that you're not going to go senile very soon (subject to approval from a medical viewpoint).
And then you blink.
And you realize that even with so called "writers' block", you have managed to verbally vomit a pretty long rant on your blog.
Maybe we're all just plain lazy when we excuse ourselves with writers' block.
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