Since I was a little girl, I have had one primary life goal:  to Write a novel. While other kids were playing Monopoly or fighting with their siblings, I was Writing stories in a spiral bound notebook. 

In November 2010, after years of starting and stopping and coming up with ideas that I couldn’t quite make work, I began.

I found myself passionate, inspired, and motivated.  Ideas were flowing.  When I sat down to write, the story began telling itself.  I found myself with the makings of (in my opinion) a good book.  

I wrote…and wrote…and wrote.  I woke up early before work to write.  I went home over lunch and wrote.  I wrote on the weekends.  I wrote before bed at night.  And finally, I reached 100 pages.  100!  100 full pages of a single-spaced, size 12, Arial font story that I really felt was going somewhere.

And then, I stalled.  My creativity came to a screeching halt.  Suddenly, I found myself completely void of ideas for where to go next.

Now, three months later…I’m still stuck.  I Start Writing, only to delete what I’ve written.  I lie in bed at night and ponder ideas.  I jot down story lines in email drafts, on the notepad app of my iPad, and even on random sticky notes while I’m work.  But yet, I still can’t get them to work.

My lack of inspiration has lead to lack of motivation, so now I have a hard time even getting myself to sit down and try to write.  It’s a viscous cycle.

Needless to say, I’m frustrated.  My goal was to finish my novel by my 30^th birthday…exactly 8 months and 6 days (shudder) from today.  I know that when I write, I write fast, so I feel like there’s still time to meet my goal.  But I have to get started again in order to do that. (PS..I just want to finish the book in 8 months…I’m under no delusions that it could be published that quickly…if it gets published at all.)

And hence, I have decided to start blogging again.  My theory is this:  I spend my days writing about bachelor’s degrees, and my evenings writing about neon signs, diamonds, small business, and other various freelance web writing projects…so perhaps I need to do more creative writing to get the ideas circulating again.

And thus, a blog was born (or reborn, since I have randomly been posting to this blog for some time).  My plan is to just post my thoughts, nice stories, or fun things I find online (or in real life), and hopefully one of these days an idea will pop into my head and I can start writing again.  Cross your fingers for me (and your toes…and maybe even your eyes…)!

By the way, does anyone have any other tips for curing writer’s block (is there anyone ooouuuuttttt therrrreeee)?  If so, do share in the comment section below!