WRITER'S BLOCK: WRITER'S INTUITION

When I sat down to write my last post, I knew I was needing to write even though I had no idea what I would write about.

And I learned, without planning it, that what I needed to write about was intuition. Intuition cannot be planned.

Every writer has intuition. The only frustration is whether they are going to trust it. You know the expression, "Trust your gut." Well…. when you do, that's intuition speaking.

Many years ago when I was working on my dissertation, I ignored my intuition. I didn't know any better. The price I paid was that the work took me an extremely long time. As any of you know who have worked on a research project of this sort, it is necessary to incorporate suggestions from your committee. In those days I did not have the perspective to simply take these suggestions and weave them artfully into the project. Push-pull, push-pull, push-pull. Exhaustion by the end.

I can't say that I learned to "go with my gut" because of that experience, but certainly it was part of the growth process.

While still at times I resist (e.g., like working hard to taking this recent writing break), at least I know I'm in the right direction, intuitively.