Battering at the wall.

I refuse to believe in "writer's block". Sadly, I'm also losing faith in the muse.

Contrary to circumstantial evidence, I am not dead. Or even somehow sidelined.

I am just struggling between my muse and my inner cynic, looking at the real world, getting me despondent and shooting down everything I write planning to post.

So far it's a stalemate. So I'm trying a workaround ;-)

I'm writing utterly disjointed bits that don't draw the attention of the 'inner cynic' because they don't seem related to anything concrete. My subversive hope is to grow each one out until they interconnect to the existing narrative and are fit for posting.

If this works, I hope to eventually have large portions of story to post.... since each is growing separately as scenes until I grow them enough to interconnect into the coherent narrative.

I refuse to believe in writer's block, so I am trying to trick my inner censor into letting me bang out something seemingly unrelated until I can fuse them together before the inner censor can drop the hammer.

So far I'm banging out a lot of incoherent (but hopefully useable/fuseable) stuff. I refuse to accept 'the block' so I will try to subvert my way around.

How do YOU deal with 'writers block' ...or being 'ditched by the muse'?

K@