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A Serious Dry Spell 8/25/2009 6:48:02 AM
Could it be a dreaded writer's block? After working so hard on my last novel then burning out before I could give the selling part of this game of published works my all and everything, then moving to 'nowhere' right at a crucial time in the process of publishing my novel, I feel something is seriously screwed up.
It is hard to find my voice in the midst of the mundane chores of my daily life. And I miss my writing, so much. I don't venture out into the community of writers very often and I seem to have no energy to encourage readers to read my work.
I have allowed an isolation to enter my life due to a geographical move just under three years ago. It is very uninspiring at the moment. What I have learned is that as much as I dislike (the suddenly huge) city of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, I am equally opposed to the incrediblely small (minded) Milk River, Alberta, Canada. And it's not the place, it's the group conscious of the community. I simply don't fit in, at all, not even a little bit, at least not with the humans. I do get great joy from connecting with the local wildlife but even that is marred by a darkness due to the people that live here. It is one of the least environmentally conscious places that I have ever been. They don't even try to care about the nature of the area. As I have said to friends and family many times over the last two years when describing the area in and around Milk River, "It's a raped landscape. Raped, beaten up and left for dead".
And why am I suddenly blogging today? Just for the sake of hope, I think.
I don't do Facebook, Twitter or MySpace - just not my thing. I'm not really a huge fan of connecting to people over the Internet other than for the art of writing. I am not sharing the real me with anyone online just my artistic expression, even in an article of writing like this. I also have a very high metabolism which means sitting in front of a computer for more than an hour is so draining I can hardly function in other areas of my life.
Still, I am writing this for the sake of hope. I have read many articles, stories, poems and such, right here on this website. I have always liked this site and the community here. I am not a very 'pop culture' tolerant person so many of the other networking sites just cause me nausea (I'm not kidding, actual nausea). Even so, I still like it here. So thanks everybody.
