Too much caffeine and too little lyricism.

[discountsatori]

It was sad, a couple weeks ago, when Adam was moving everything out of the living room to steam-clean the carpet (we are nothing if not particularly ambitious apartment dwellers) and had to blow a layer of dust off the thin purple plastic cover of my paper journal before he sat it on one of the wicker chairs on the balcony. I can tell myself a

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[awildflowersoul]

they say poetry is a dying genre. maybe it's because there are more people out there who think and feel the same way you do. (i know i do.) the first step's always the hardest, and no one ever knows what it is until it comes upon them. i hope you (and i, and the rest of us) find our first steps soon.

that's a great quote you ended with there, by the way.

[starlakitty]

oh laurie...i write about not being able to write, too. i think i frustrate a lot of people. like my boyfriend, for example, it makes him crazy that i write about not being able to write. he doesn't understand why i'm such a spaz about it. :)

[kathleens]

You have no idea how happy it makes me to know that someone else in the world says Rabbit Rabbit.

[trillian42]

I do, too, when I remember :) Unfortunately my brain is not at its best when just awakened, so I frequently forget.

[discountsatori]

Yep! Every month, if I remember.

[discountsatori]

I think that's a fantastic technique. Zen babble can be so freeing! I engaged in something resembling it the other day, in my car, during my lunch break (though my words weren't completely invisible, the sun was very much in my eyes the whole time). I had my paper journal with me, so I just sat there on the top deck of the parking garage and basically dumped my brain onto paper. It certainly wasn't anything publishable, but it cleared out enough stuff to make what I really needed to say stand out a little more. Honestly, I think that's what I'll be doing for the first couple of weeks that I'm on a writing schedule -- getting all the STUFF out to find the few little specific ideas that I might be able to really turn into something.

I shall use your Zen babble as inspiration!

hmm...

[brimfulofme]

'involved variations on the word "bang." I think the guys are beginning to understand that, besides queries that lead me to having to explain banging'

Now I find that hilarious, and yes, I am sophomoric.

Re: hmm...

[discountsatori]

Heh. It's funny to look back on, actually... it's just hard to come up with the right words when you're hit with such, uh, colorful questions.