Tonight's Poet Corner: Introspection
Ladies and gentleman - my very small group of loyal readers - I have a problem. No, it's not one of the multitude of issues and conflicts I've addressed in previous introspections or blog entries. It is not about my financial status, my education's future, or my family dynamics. It isn't even about my occasional bouts of creative ennui. It is, in fact, the opposite. What I've implied, perhaps incorrectly, over the years in my introspections is that my writer's block is mostly a result of not having good enough ideas or not knowing how to get from point A to point B in a plot, outline, or script. While that sounds like a valid reason for a hindrance in writing, it is only responsible about ten to fifteen percent of the time when I cannot seem to get anything on paper or screen. The truth is, the other eighty-five to ninety percent of the time, I am so bloated with ideas that I can almost feel them leaking out of both ears. I have novel ideas, series ideas, sc...