Writer’s block.
January 16th, 2006To envision how a 4-processor system running [SunOS] 4.1.x works, think of four kids and one bathroom. — John DiMarco
On too many occasions in the last week, I sat down really, really meaning to post, but just couldn’t get started writing. Much of the time, I thought about writing, but turned on the TV and a web browser and opted to spend the evening downloading rather than uploading. Need more input. Other times I had only a little trivia (trivium?) on my mind, nothing meriting a whole sentence, much less a post.
A few times, I thought I had a lot to write about, but nothing got put into words. I either got lost following a tangent while researching or re-reading links, or else it felt like my thoughts had spent so much time bouncing around in my head they would be bruised and bloodied beyond recognition, and rendered as an overlong incomprehensible ramble (with a few run-on sentences, naturally). This eventually led to a blogging death-spiral, where not posting leads to a build-up of topics on which to post, which leads to resource contention, starvation (priority inversion?), and no posts. Livelock.
I need to break out of this funk before it spreads further into my non-blog writing…