I just asked my wife, Sarah, what I should blog about, and she said I should write about The Rhetorical Function of Geographical Space and Movement in Nationalist Narrative Fiction. Now, it’s quite possible that she wanted ME to write about this because this is the title of her 30 page paper she’s working on for a class in her PhD program. You know how they say that if you’re a young married couple, babysitting someone’s kids is one of the best forms of birth-control? Well, that’s kind of what it’s like to be married to a PhD student. While I may have had ideas before of maybe, someday wanting to get a PhD, being married to a PhD student has cured me of any such desires in the future. No WAY.
So, I will not be writing about The Rhetorical Function of Geographical Space and Movement in Nationalist Narrative Fiction. I know, that must upset some of you. But I will try and get Sarah to post her paper when she’s done so you can all read it.
But…I do seem to have writer’s block. I don’t have any problems coming up with photos to share on my AdamWC.me site, and I’m really having fun getting into some iPhone photography at the moment. But as far as the written word is concerned…I seem to be struggling a bit to come up with anything I want to share. And the few things I’d love to write about…well, I probably shouldn’t. What do you all do when you have writer’s block? Sit down and just do some stream of consciousness? Wait around for something to just strike your fancy? Forget about it and just move on, and wait for inspiration?
I’d invite you to share some of your ideas for getting past times when you couldn’t think of anything to write or blog about below.
I’m interested in reading the things you would love to write about but think you shouldn’t!
I’m sure you are :)
We’ll see…some things are better saved for certain times…
I’ll second Rachel’s comment, but offer this addition (which got me into a weekly blog of sorts that lasted more than 2 years):
One of the lucky things about being both a writer and a student of the Bible is that there are collections of weekly and daily writing prompts with 4 streams each, i.e., the Revised Common Lectionary. Of course, some Christians think there’s very little more to say than the words in their chosen translation (interpretation by someone else, or several generations of someones). Or they say that every one of those 4 streams MUST be God’s Word to you every time. But that’s not what I said in my Presby ordination vows. I said, believe, and in fact find that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, there’s almost always some piece of that unique and authoritative witness that speaks to me with God’s voice, or begs me to dig under it for God’s voice, or makes me wonder how on earth God’s voice got so buried under people’s voices. The piece may be as small as a word that gives me trouble in reconciling available translations with other uses of the same Greek or Hebrew, or it may be verses the RCL compilers chose to omit, but it’s always something. In fact, all too often it’s more than I can deal with just then.
weird things you see by the side of the road when you’re scooting around (e.g. single shoes, a christmas tree, etc)
Well…since it’s about 30º when I scoot around these days…I don’t see much of anything because my entire face is mostly covered to keep it warm…
But…I’ll keep that in mind. Though those things (in visual form) might better suit my new site that’s coming: iPhoneographi.es