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Writing

CTyankee

(65,403 posts) Sat Jul 24, 2021, 04:16 PM Jul 2021

I need your help, writers! I am over half way finished with my second book on art history and [View all]

find myself with "writer's block," if that is what it is.

The death of my ex-husband (and father to my 3 kids) last week seems to have bottled up my energy and talent to finish my second book. I know what I want to say and can't work the words (highly unlike me).

How do you deal with it if this has happened to you? My now (and forever) second husband understands but finds me difficult to deal with lately.

Any of you have this type of thing happen when you are in the middle of writing?

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I need your help, writers! I am over half way finished with my second book on art history and [View all] CTyankee Jul 2021 OP

Can you post two paragraphs of your first book... LuvLoogie Jul 2021 #1

Here CTyankee Jul 2021 #2

Not sure that I have any help to offer on writer's block (or possibly sadness?), but a niyad Jul 2021 #4

Get the ideas down, then go back later on and apply the fundamentals when ready. In the mean time... LuvLoogie Jul 2021 #5

Do you know this story? Love your point of view but not sure about your last statement. I don't CTyankee Jul 2021 #7

I don't know the story. I tried to limit edits LuvLoogie Jul 2021 #9

Oh, good! My goal at this point in my life is to help people love art as much as I do. CTyankee Jul 2021 #10

On a tangent, here are a couple of videos LuvLoogie Jul 2021 #11

All I know is that my wife, who has published Tomconroy Jul 2021 #3

Long walks alone. Seems to stir my imagination. Midnight Writer Jul 2021 #6

I take inspiration from the music itself. On youtube I have discovered wonderful orchestral and CTyankee Jul 2021 #8

I agree. What do you consider a long walk? SeeingEyeRefugee Nov 2021 #12