Sitting here with an Org journal entry, a WordPress draft, Roam, and Micro.blog ready and waiting. Now what?

@cm It is a little meta :). Of course my problem isn’t the lack of tools, or having too many tools. My problem is a dearth of publishable thoughts :).

@jack Hah! Searching for the best place to write at and then once you find it staring at it (or them) without an ounce of idea to put down there – that’s me a lot of times 😂

@cm This is interesting and timely because I’ve been thinking about creative prompts lately. I’ve concluded that, for me, they’re not useful. I’m not striving to be a capital-W Writer (or a Photographer or whatever), so if I don’t feel like creating something, I just don’t. My thinking is that if I have to force myself to create, why bother? If I can’t be someone who simply must write or draw or make music, I should maybe do something else. Writing may simply be a staircase I need not ascend right now. (there it is! 😉).

So, I guess your prompt worked, just maybe in a different way than intended! :).

@amit It’s not “Writer’s block” so much as “Writer’s meh” much of the time :)

@jack Hah! A nice way to put it. Writers have to be the most moody creatures out there :D

@rnv Good stuff! One thing I’m not sure about is “So a prompt for a writer is no different from, say, a fingering exercise for a musician.” I’m not sure. Wouldn’t the equivalent for a musician be more like a phone reminder saying “go pick up your guitar”?

I could certainly use a little obession and vocation. Prompts or no prompts :)