I write and write and the words just flow. Beautiful words! Words that bring out emotion, words that capture the imagination! Ideas are forthcoming and they reside on the closest tip of my mind. Mere minutes go by and the pages fill up. It is exhilarating and I have to pull myself away from the keyboard to serve my basic needs.
Then, there are the days that the word tap is closed. All I can muster are words like “nice” and phrases like “I love it” and all these overused clichés of which social media has an oversupply. My ideas are stale and unoriginal and creative thoughts are muddled in the farthest most inaccessible reaches of my mind. Hours can pass without me even approaching the keyboard, let alone typing a line.

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