I just finished my last big project for the year. I feel relieved that it is completed, but I am so tired that it is difficult to be satisfied, more of a “the weekend looks really good for once”. The creative ember is still burning, I woke up last night with a poem in my head and I devoted some lucid dream time to fleshing it out, but we will see how much I retained after this post. I need to start ramping up my creative output again now that my professional obligations are winding down for 2025. But I feel like a marathoner who hasn’t been out running for weeks.

To wit, last week at our school’s swimming carnival, I tried to find some creative ideas for a spark, but I only came up with three and I am unsure if I actually wrote them down. I feel, for now, I have comprehensively tapped my military, scientific and philosophical background for story ideas. I can always tap the internet and AI if needed, but I want to focus more on the future on stories and not the background. When I was busy with work and the creativity was being stifled, I googled writer’s block. And there was the classic definition, unable to create new material, however; there was an elaboration that I was unfamiliar with…..

Being swamped with so many ideas that you never start or fully develop any. And then it hit me like an ACME anvil, for that is what I had done purely by accident. Because of the little time that I thought I had to actually write, I focused my precious time on plots and ideas and characters. But never actually writing. Even this blog was an innocent participant in my version of writer’s block, So, I have just a few weeks left before summer break to work on increasing my writing output and then, good bad or ugly, I am finishing my first novel. Never mind that I have the plans for 83 books and over 200 short stories, no more writer’s block by drowning in unrealised ideas. I have been working on this particular novel for 15 years on and off. I do have the outline and the characters and the plot mapped out. I have already written 25000 words. But I am committed to finishing this book before starting any other projects. SO roughly 75000 words to go. But I have mapped out 14 other books in this particular series, so good news?? I’m idealistic but not crazy (diagnosed by me), and if I do have any good ideas then I am still obligated to write them down and then think about developing it further, right? SSBK