The knee goes "pop" - Part I - Writing

I feel like tonight needed two separate posts, because really I was thinking along two different trains of thought. So, here's part one of tonight's posts, a reflection on my writing, at the moment:

Today my sister gave me one of her papers for her high school English class to edit. It was an assignment where they had to thing of a feeling, then write something that evokes that feeling without ever saying the word. She chose "fear," and wrote about tearing her ACL this summer. It was pretty disturbing reading it, because the whole time she was talking about how when it happened she could literally feel her dreams of making the National ODP soccer team slipping away. I helped minimally, re-arranging sentences, adding a bit of imagery, but apparently the changes I made were "awesome."

The same thing happened to me earlier this week, when a friend had me edit her paper. It really makes me reflect on the fact that I love writing, and that (at least some people think) I'm good at it.

I've had an itch to start writing my books again, but it's been really hard for me to pick up, because of the job hunt, job, and school. Plus, I'm at a part of the book I really don't like right now, and have no desire to really write about it. I feel like what's going on in the story is boring, and I know that if I feel that way, a reader certainly would. The problem is, I just haven't figured out how to do it any differently. My characters need information to move on in the story, and I can't think of any better way for them to receive said information than them researching ancient texts and/or having long dialogues between characters.

The thing is, once I get past this part of the story, it should really pick up again. It's just getting though this one particular part that is holding me back. Is this writer's block? I don't know. If it is, I need to find my muse.

~ Nick
2000 years of chasing taking its toll