Writer's Slum
Vanessa Jubis is a freelance writer and copy editor. Follow her at thewritersslum.blogspot.com
It seems to be a rampant dis-ease. You know it, that pesky feeling of being stuck, stagnant, stumped, going no where, in your writing that is. I like to refer to it as my “writer’s slum." Someone recently asked me, “So, how’s that Thesis comin’ along?” my response– (a deep long sigh) “I’m slumming it.” Yes, that’s the truth I’ve been slumming for some time. No matter what I tried to do, nothing seemed to get me to doing what I needed to do. Just write! It’s depressing to be struck with this debilitating force. I had to think of a way to get myself out of this slum. So, I devised a small task to get me to think out loud. I verbally recorded myself off an application I downloaded to my Google phone. While in the car I started to vent (into my phone) about my slumming. I was impressed because it made me feel better. I kept doing it. So much so that I decided to blog about this so called writer’s slum. I ended up creating a blog to go with the all too familiar feeling that all writer’s experience at some moment or another. I was able to gain momentum with respect to looking forward to writing about my writing issues or “slumming.” So, when you feel that you have nothing to write about, think again because in spite of your writer’s slum, your writing hurdles are there to keep the tenacity levels high. Slumming or not, keep writing!
