Wren to the Rescue

Five minutes ago I was going to quit blogging. Forever.

I can't write anymore. I have nothing to say!

So, I was just sitting over here drinking my Sprite Zero, whimpering, feeling sorry for my wordless, boring self when I decided to click over to see what Blue Wren's been up to. And I got a real kick out of it...

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, so they say. I have to agree. How can you not? After all, the other days of your life are already gone. Yesterday is yesterday, lost. You can't do it over. You've really only got today. And today, there are so many distractions that keep you from doing things just as you'd like. Although today, I did do something just as I liked. I took a shower with the window wide open, and just outside, it was snowing and windy. I pretended while I was in the shower that I lived in Norway, and that soon, I would run outside naked and throw myself into the snow and roll around and get all tingly down to my soul before running back inside to get dry and warm and drink hot chocolate and maybe eat a big steamy bowl of potato soup with crusty bread.

Blue Wren fell under the spell of Dr. Wicked's web application, Write or Die! It's a site that lets you challenge yourself to write as many words as you can in a certain amount of time. And it also punishes the tendency to avoid writing. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.

Consequences! I think that's just what I need to start writing again. Like Dr. Wicked wrote...

If I don't write my own stories I am only disappointing myself. I experience perpetual disappointment in myself so I'm kind of used to it.

Sigh. I can relate. Dr. Wicked's consequences are:

Gentle Mode: A certain amount of time after you stop writing, a box will pop up, gently reminding you to continue writing.

Normal Mode: If you persistently avoid writing, you will be played a most unpleasant sound. The sound will stop if and only if you continue to write.

Kamikaze Mode: Keep Writing or Your Work Will Unwrite Itself

I'm going to visit Dr. Wicked every morning to try to get back into the swing of things over here.

I'm a little scared but why should I be? Like Wren said, Oh, This is fun...

Here's to hoping!

Comments

[Jeremy]

Oh my. I'm glad Wren saved you, or that you saved yourself using Wren's experience, or that you promised Dr Wicked Blue Kid's soul.

I know I could never submit to what you seem about to. I'm all over myself anyway when Other Things conspire against me. But A Most Unpleasant Sound would have me reaching for the off switch, writing or no writing.

Good luck.

[bluegirl]

I've got to do something, Jeremy!

I just tried it. I wanted to write 100 words in 10 minutes. I started writing and all of a sudden these horns started playing really loud!

Da, da, na, na, da, da...DA...DAAAA!

lol. It was a good consquence. I wrote 100 words in three minutes.

They all STUNK but I wrote them. :)

[Wren]

We can all use all the help we can get. You GO, Blue Girl! ;o)

[zombie rotten mcdonald]

your stinky words are better than most other people's best writing.

[zombie rotten mcdonald]

But honestly, weren't we all just a little afraid that this would happen when the Red State went Blue?

BG needs to move to Texas or Alaska. (wait, are they still Red?)

[Kathleen in Oakland]

Love it! you rock Blue.

[Von]

Please please please don't quit! You write beautifully!! Thank God you stumbled upon something that could be a motivator!! Chin up!

[Von]

My comment disappeared!! I think I wrote:
Please please please don't stop writing! Your posts are beautiful and fantastic! And not at all stinky (like RZ said).
Chin up!!

[Kathleen Maher]

BG, don't worry, you'll always be a writer. It's important that you give yourself time. The writing won't unwrite itself and it won't go away. It'll be there when you're ready for it. You've had an awful year.

So it might not be the best time to crack the whip. Whatever you do now, do what you feel.

If you feel better writing than not writing, go for it; put yourself in Kamikaze Mode.
But if it's not flowing right now; if it's not coming in drops or streams or floods, go easy on yourself. Because you really have had an awful year.

[Snag]

Write. Please.

[Larry Jones]

Add me to the list of those who check back here every day to see what you're up to. Like the rest, I'd miss you terribly if you vanished from this space. Remember, when the going gets tough, the tough sit down and blog about it.

[blue girl]

You guys are all so great. I didn't mean for this post to be a pitiful cry for help and support! lol

But, thanks for all the support just the same!

xoxo

[Deeples]

Kamikaze Mode: Keep Writing or Your Work Will Unwrite Itself

Wherein, Kamikaze Mode = every single day on WordPress.

If I had a dollar for every blog that has refused to publish and then obliterated itself like a Mission Impossible directive...

I'd totally be richtastic right now.

Big time.

[zombie rotten mcdonald]

now, Von, I didn't say Beege's words were stinky, I was using her word to point out that even when she's half-assing it in true 3Bulls fashion, it's better than most other writers.

I LIKE BG's words.

[Dan Leo]

Any damn fool can type words, and a lot of damn fools type a lot of foolish words. It's not the quantity of the words that matters, Beege, but what the words say. But you know that.

[Larry Jones]

I didn't mean for this post to be a pitiful cry for help and support!

Ah, denial. You know we can't help you until you admit you have a problem, Blue Girl. It's like when you wouldn't admit you were living in a mansion. You'll see: a little Blogger's Block is nothing compared to that.

[Adorable Girlfriend]

You cannot quit blogging. I couldn't live without you!

[fish]

I even once read a post about Genesis over here.

[kim]

can always count on little birds to save the day!

as long as you are having fun, that's what it all comes down to

keep on keepin' on!!

[Bob]

When I was workin C-block at Pelican Bay, Intensive Management Unit, and I'd be crackin heads with my bros on swing shift, we'd always get some whiny con wanting paper and a pen to write his attorney about the abuse. We'd be like try to write 100 words in 10 minutes cuz that's how long you got before we bring the crash squad in and bust you hard for writing on your walls with your own feces.

So, what I'm trying to say is, take perspective, reframe as needed, and you'll find your fingers just dancing over your keyboard like grasshoppers in a frying pan.

[yaya]

I wish Wren could save me right now.....Take perspective...Ok,keep going BG....I Love reading your posts....You Make Me Very Proud....luv ya....

[Account Deleted]

You know, I feared that once Obama won that many of us bloggers who organized our daily writing around not love for our fellow man but a deep and abiding hate for all that was Chimpy the Boy Moron and his Uncle Dead, might find ourselves a bit uninspired. Or at least struggling to fuel and start our big V-8 supercharged engines of avarice with teacups full of weak happy lemonade.

We'll adjust eventually but the motivation needs to come from a different place I suppose. However, I never saw you that way so nevermind what I just said. But I've had to adjust to a world free of big evil clown parade balloons floating stupidly and treacherously above crowds of fat little toddlers and their sweet and innocent moms and dads. I want to be the guy who sells the cotton candy not the guy who shovels up the horseshit on the parade route, man.

[JollyRoger]

Good to see you still with us. Don't leave just yet; we've got more work to do.

[Nicho]

You just need the right mental springboard.

"Do you realize that all great literature--Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Scarlet Letter, The Red Badge of Courage, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Crime and Punishment, The Bible, and "The Charge of the Light Brigade"--are all about what a bummer it is to be a human being?"
- Vonnegut

[goldensparks]

continue blogging blue.. Do visit mine.. take care..