Dog and Pony Show.

I long for words to pour out and my ability to dream and create to spring forth. I find myself writing more than I ever have in my life, and yet not writing at all. Seemingly gone, are the days that I am able to express my thoughts on a blank page. I find myself wondering if I have become a machine, and not a human with deep expressive thoughts. Or maybe all this writing has ruined the one thing I hold dear.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Thomas Mann

If I have lost my passion for writing, then I feel I am a mere visage - nothing deep, just an outer shell of what I used to be. Not being able to write, makes me feel old and useless.

Don't get me wrong - I can write articles until they come out my ears but when it comes to my own individual free thought being transformed on a page, I am utterly deficient.

This has absolutely nothing to do with my blog but I laughed when I read it.

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Robert Heinlein

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.
Isabel Colegate