First Confession of 2012

I never thought I would ever get to this point. I have been writing for close to 15 years now and I never had an instance of writer's block. I still haven't. For the last two months of 2011, however, I literally refused to write a word. I have all these ideas swirling in my head and I would not put my fingertips on my keyboard. I didn't even tell my wife. I didn't write any letters or blog posts. I kept my tweets to a minimum.

Much of it has to do with my 9 to 5 which continues to increase our work load and I seem to spend more time typing reports than anything else. After hitting the road for 4 to 5 hours a day and then typing for 3 hours, I don't want to look at another screen for two more hours. Then again, I think it was more than a funk than anything else.

I felt this way a few times in my life outside of writing. I remember attending Rock Steady Anniversaries in the late nineties. We would drive up north to NYC and attended about 7 to 8 hip hop oriented events over the course of 3 days. On the drive back south, we wouldn't even listen to any music. If I heard another hip hop song during the following week, I would shut it out. It was just a complete refusal on my part to participate in anything hip hop oriented. I would even avoid hosting or organizing any shows for another week. That's the best way I can describe it.

Well, I am out of that funk. I enjoy writing and plan on doing more for 2012. Thanks for riding with me folks.