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I confess.  Lately I have been in an epic battle with writer’s block.  I have been struggling with this for weeks.  After New Year’s I was doing so well…posting every single day or every other day…then BAM…I hit the brick wall.  I’ve been really trying to figure out what my problem is and I KNOW precisely what is wrong.

I am just one of those pencil to the paper kind of girls.  Writing for me is cathartic.  I prefer writing in a notebook and then copying what I’ve written onto the computer.  For some reason, when I’m writing on paper my thoughts flow out of me smoothly and at some point after I get started in my writing, my pencil becomes unrelenting in it’s mission to transcribe the thoughts in my brain to the words on the page.

So that is one part of my problem.  The other part - and this will come as no surprise - is that I forget what the heck I wanted to write about by the time I get to sit down at the computer.  I will sometimes sit and stare blankly at my screen as if the monitor is going to play back what happened over the course of the day in an effort to remind me of what I wanted to talk about when I suddenly blurted out at some point, “Oh I have got to blog about that today.”  Short of video recording myself all day, I need to carry a notebook and pencil or one of those pocket voice recorders so that every time I have a thought about something I want to blog about, I can jot a quick note down.

I am seriously going to try this strategy and see how it pans out.  I’ll be letting you.  Well actually, I guess if you start seeing more frequent posts again you’ll know it worked. :)   Now I remember why I never make New Year’s resolutions.  I NEVER keep them as you see.  Not all of them anyhow.