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Tuesday, February 02, 2010Huh, Was That My Inspiration Rolling By?
First and foremost, so so sorry for baling on you guys the second half of January... we had a crazy end-of-month here: bebe's baptism/christening, a big adoption to-do, the in-laws left on a cruise, we finally got started on the kitchen reno. Yeah, I'm still reeling. Add in bebe having the flu, me getting it and you see just where I've been the past couple of weeks!
For my first February post do I have succulent words of writing wisdom? Nope. I have wisdom teeth. Or, rather, I finally got rid of my wisdom teeth (what can I say, I'm a late bloomer!) and am now wondering if they held my inspiration.
Why? Because I had an extra one. Yep, five wisdom teeth while most humans only have four..the fifth was a little tiny baby tooth that the dentist kept saying was 'cute'. I, meanwhile, just wanted her to get on with pulling the other four. Yeesh! That lidacaine stuff is good but it doesn't last forever! Anywho, back to the point. Since the extraction and mind-numbing drugs needed to overcome the pain, I've been seriously lacking inspiration. For both the non-fiction and the fiction, which has never really happened to me before. Sure, I've had down times, but never just...nothing.
Do I really think that fifth wisdom tooth was the thing that made me special? Not really, I'm being kind of silly. I think it's the drugs that are still coming out of my system that are keeping me from being truly productive. But I also see where sometimes 'inspiration' can become a stumbling block. Just because I haven't been 'inspired' to write a scene it doesn't mean I didn't write it. I did - haven't read through so who knows if it's any good - and I'm proud of myself for pushing through. As The Great Nora once said, "You can't edit a blank page". So inspiration or not, I've been writing through the pain and weirdness that pain drugs bring to my brain...and we'll see how things shake out once I'm truly back to 'normal'!
Posted By: Kristina Knight @ 8:40:46 PM