Why???

@Lakesidepoet: lets investigate!!🙂

@Quoththeraven: 🕵

You be Sherlock I'll be Watson😄

@Quoththeraven: I'm not smart enough to be Sherlock, lol.

Me neither swhy I picked Watson. I've seen your writing. You're smart enough 🙂

@Quoththeraven: Pffft, have you noticed I can't write anymore? See? Case closed! Lol.

Why? Are you blocked?

@Quoththeraven: I guess. It's a kind of writer's block I've never had. I have inspiration, I've even had lines come to me, but there's no connection. I can FEEL the words in my brain, but I can't make them come out. I've literally tried EVERYTHING. I write weekly to soldiers and veterans....I can't do that either. It's like...if it requires anything more than facts, I can't write. Emotional depletion and disconnect and I can't get it back.

You are emotionally constipated?

Where did your love go?

@Quoththeraven: Lol...well there's a term I've not heard before. I'm not sure it's constipation as much as it's emptiness/depletion.

Where did my love go? I have no idea.

I can write. I don't share it here. Most often I have no direction no process. I just write from my heart or my love. After its all done I'm like wow! Where did all this come from. I suspect you may know what I'm talking about. Is there something bothering you? Something maybe you can't put you finger on or are avoiding?

@Quoththeraven: I do know EXACTLY what you're talking about. I'd love to read some of it if you're ever willing to share it privately.

Is there something bothering me? Lol How much time do you have? Seriously, the faster question is...is there anything that isn't bothering me? However, that had never hindered my writing. In fact it has fueled it. Writing is my therapy, it's cathartic....and now I don't have it.

You have it still it's just buried. Are you over analyzing your work? Does it seem predictable or redundant?

@Quoththeraven: Well, I AM an over-thinker. However, there's no writing coming to over analyze. You know how they say to just sit and write something...no matter what it is, to keep writing? Well, the only thing I get when I do that is self deprecating lines...over and over and over. That's it. So, I've stopped doing that.

Ooohhhh that's no good. Try writing silliness. Like children's stories. I used to do a lot for my daughter. We had chicky Bonita chihuahua and the bumblebee riders of Bologna ville. Oh and we mustn't forget Mary the hairy fairly who had braided armpit hair. Give it a try. Try being silly. It's great fun🙂

@Quoththeraven: Yes, I've tried that. Silly poems are very unnatural to me as it is. They take a lot of effort. I'm much more serious.

Have you been too strong for too long?

@Quoththeraven: All my life :-)

Been juggling fire and swords for some time eh?

@Quoththeraven: Lol, since before I was born...

Me too🙂 No way I should be as good as am. By rights I should be the unibomber.

@Quoththeraven: I'm sorry you know that kind of pain. :( I seem to have forgotten this is all public postings. Would you prefer pm?

It's alright I'm good! I'm more than good. Unless you want to switch to pm🙂

@Quoththeraven: I'm fine either way :-)

Wow 21 exchanges between us 🙂