what gets in the way....

actually

for reverb 10 day 2

which was yesterday

it's

"what gets in the way of your writing and can you eliminate it"

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simply put

i get in the way. it's me. i'm in the way.

and

no. i'm not going anywhere.

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i'm 46 and growing up that many years ago, there wasn't the term "attention deficit disorder"

if there had been, i would have worn that label.

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i have a hard time focusing. it's that simple. and i often hear

"people like you...you know...the artsy type, all have trouble focusing. it's a trait"

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really. is it.

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i often feel that my brain is like an 8 lane highway and my thoughts are the cars weaving in and out of traffic, occasionally flipping each other off. silently i scream things like brake, take the next exit, pull over to the side, slow down, there's a rest stop. doesn't somebody have to pee.

and

when that doesn't work i pray that they all run out of gas. at the same time.

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believe me. i love to write. but it takes work. and on those days when finally my favorite car veers of that busy highway and takes a road less traveled. a quaint country road where noisy mice play in the crooked barns that work so hard to stand proud in the golden rolling fields where they were born. my words flow.

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they flow like a river

and

writing happens. notebooks are filled. notecards scatter.

and

i feel alive

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