Often it’s been said that there is no such thing as writer’s block.\u00a0 I tend to agree.\u00a0 However, personally, I have “writer’s hesitation.”\u00a0 [I know, the period inside the quotation looks weird, but I’ve been told by experts that’s the way it is.] I hesitate for various reasons, but most recently, if I want to be truthful, because I am lazy (not all the time, and not about everything).<\/p>\n
I want to write a poem.\u00a0 It’s been awhile since I wrote a poem.\u00a0 Specifically, maybe a year or five or eight.\u00a0 I don’t count years or poems, it’s just that I’ve been writing prose.\u00a0 But the poem I want to write is someplace outside of myself.<\/p>\n
The poem is gurgling, wants to be set free; but, I won’t release it.\u00a0 Freeing it would take time and effort.\u00a0 What is beneath the surface?\u00a0 Something so big I can’t even name it.\u00a0 Something larger than myself.\u00a0 And that’s the point.\u00a0 I’m 68 years old.\u00a0 For the past thirty something years I’ve been writing about me (at least recently I’ve managed to write about me in terms of not only intersectionality, but also in connection to local and national historical events), but I want to move beyond myself, discover more than my own humanity.<\/p>\n
The enormity of knowing what to write about has me cowering in a corner (okay, on the couch watching Netflix).\u00a0 It takes effort to focus. It takes relationships.\u00a0 It takes community.\u00a0 It takes the opposite of lazy.<\/p>\n
Solution:\u00a0 I am going to take a class.\u00a0 A writing class.\u00a0 My boss is teaching the class.\u00a0 Some of my students may be in the class.\u00a0 I will be intimidated, maybe, initially; but, I will knock “lazy” on her butt and wave goodbye to “hesitation.” I will write a poem, or two, maybe even three.<\/p>\n
I may be the only 68 year old writer in the class, no denying it; but, I’ve always believed in life-long learning-I’ve just been too “lazy” to practice it.<\/p>\n
Sherry Lee<\/p>\n
May 1, 2015<\/p>\n
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Share your comments regarding “writer’s hesitation.”<\/p>\n
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Often it’s been said that there is no such thing as writer’s block.\u00a0 I tend to agree.\u00a0 However, personally, I have “writer’s hesitation.”\u00a0 [I know, the period inside the quotation looks weird, but I’ve been told by experts that’s the way it is.] I hesitate for various reasons, but most …<\/p>\n