– I have been trying to wake myself up every morning a little early so I can spend some time writing. The soul searching and creative writing exercises have been beneficial and therapeutic. I have about 39 pages of a “memoir” in the works. And now I think I’m stuck. It’s hard to get all the details I want, especially when I left those details out in my journals. I suppose all that’s left to do is push through and just keep writing.

– This week I haven’t been as successful as getting myself up early (that snooze button keeps getting pushed an extra time), but I’m cutting myself some slack. Work has been stressful, and I’ve had some ear problems that have been wearing me down pretty bad. I’ve been trying to medicate it myself, but I think it’s time for a doctor visit. Ugh.

– I wrote a previous post about how I’m tired of running away from my dream of songwriting. I am trying to be diligent and follow through with pursuing this, even in little ways. I have been trying to write some poetry in my journal every night, just short little snippets that may hopefully get the juices flowing. I know I don’t have enough energy to tackle an entire song every night (especially after a long day when I’m feeling totally uninspired) but I hope that the constant, daily exercise of word writing will perhaps unblock the songwriter’s block.

– Speaking of words and poetry… I had an idea this week that might be good to get the creative juices flowing. I want to break out the magnetic poetry that is stuffed in one of my kitchen drawers. These used to be on the fridge of our old place, but haven’t made it onto the new fridge yet. I think having tangible words I can touch in front of me will help me to write. One of the difficulties in lyric writing is pulling words out of thin air. Having a selection in front of me will be extremely helpful. I’m not sure what I might come up with… the sets we have are the love and romance set (bought this for Drew thinking it would be a fun way to leave messages for each other, and it has been) and the sexual innuendo set (Drew followed up my purchase with one he thought would be fun.)

– Also in following through with my songwriting goal… I’m trying to get back into practicing guitar. I was doing really well at this about a month ago. I was practicing a little at least five days a week. I was noticing improvement. And then life happened and I stopped. First it was just one night, and then it turned into two, and then weeks. I’m continuing the course I found on this great website, and I am trying to challenge myself with some tougher strumming rhythms. Practicing guitar easily becomes not fun to me, and then I stop. I really want to push through until it becomes fun.

– After writing this post, I explored the magnetic poetry website and found their story. Kind of cool… guess my idea of using it to help writer’s block isn’t so original.