A
blank screen morphs into a visual version of white noise. You begin to
hear your heartbeat thumping, wondering if it will match the cadence of
the blinking cursor. Before you know it, thirty minutes have drifted by,
then an hour. You awake from your mental stupor and ponder how you can
ever re-capture time wasted, your mind grasping for a coherent thought.
Not just any coherent thought, but the next great sentence of the
greatest novel in the twenty first century.
We’ve all been there. So, how do you cope with it?
Writer’s
block. Okay, I said it. The elephant in the room. Honestly, I rarely
use the term. Because I just don’t give in to suffering from it. Ever.
Why?
For the most part—this is my own personal way of addressing life’s ups
and downs—I think it’s more of a crutch. If I allowed myself to go
there, I could find many excuses to not write. We’re not robots or a
manufacturing plant. We’re eating, breathing, mind-straying humans, who,
at times, can lose our focus, or our groove. That’s okay. Don’t beat
yourself up. Don’t pound your fist in frustration, or dig a trench in
the floor from pacing yourself to death. It’s counter-productive.
For
starters, I’m a believer that we’re all as unique as snowflakes. Many
of us are writers in some form or fashion, while a few of us create in
other ways, music, painting, sculpture. But we’re all going to respond
to bumps in our journey to share our creative endeavors in different
manners.
Back
in the day, I cranked out story after story as a newspaper reporter. At
times, I’d have no more than thirty minutes to whip out a twenty-inch
story. Early on in my journalism career, I’d let the pressure get to me.
Finally, in an attempt to free myself from the mental torture and
inevitable stress, I thought through the deadline scenario while I was
jogging one day. There was a correlation, I could see, to my running
workouts. If I was tense, my breath was shortened, I’d have a miserable
run, my time would suck and I simply wasn’t going to get better.
I
learned to prepare myself for those deadline stories. I quickly
understood that you perform your best when your mind is calm, free of
clutter, and your body relaxed. Focused, yes, tense, not so much.
I
realized I didn’t want to be my own worst enemy. Countless other things
in life either purposely or coincidentally create hurdles for us to
overcome. I was determined—and still am—to not let my mental psyche be
on the enemy side of the ledger. In other words, I want my stride over
the hurdle to be as smooth as I can make it. And I will make it. Every
time.
Expressing
your creative self is one of life’s greatest gifts. You deserve an
honest, but encouraging signal from within your own mind. Be real, be
productive. Be true to yourself. But if you have a brief period of time
when you’re not feeling the mojo, don’t sweat it. Let confidence flow
through your bloodstream, cut yourself a break and come back to it
refreshed and ready to establish yourself as the greatest author of this
decade. Just don’t blame…you know, it.
Behind
the façade of every corporate takeover executives pull levers this way
and that, squeezing the last profitable nickel out of the deal. But no
one knows the true intent of every so-called merger.
No one knows the secret bonds that exist.
An Indian technology giant swallows up another private company that has deep roots in North Texas. For one unassuming man the thought of layoffs, of losing his own job to a bunch of arrogant assholes feels like a kick to the jewels.
Until the day Michael’s life changes forever.
Perverse alliances. An affair of the heart. A grisly murder. A spiraling string of events thrusts Michael into a life-or-death fight to save a tortured soul and hunt down a brutal killer…one who lurks closer than he ever imagined.
Greed knows no boundaries.
No one knows the secret bonds that exist.
An Indian technology giant swallows up another private company that has deep roots in North Texas. For one unassuming man the thought of layoffs, of losing his own job to a bunch of arrogant assholes feels like a kick to the jewels.
Until the day Michael’s life changes forever.
Perverse alliances. An affair of the heart. A grisly murder. A spiraling string of events thrusts Michael into a life-or-death fight to save a tortured soul and hunt down a brutal killer…one who lurks closer than he ever imagined.
Greed knows no boundaries.
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Genre – Suspense, Thriller
Rating – R
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