Writing "Deprived"

Here I am blogging again. Could it be that because my internet service was down for a week, I felt "blog-deprived?" Certainly when there is an activity that we love, and we don't get to do it, we can feel deprived, and feel a need to do the activity a lot once it becomes available to us again. I guess this falls into the category of "going with the flow."

It is frequently recommended that writers have a regular routine — which I support as well — and yet, I can as well support the activity of a huge burst of writing after a period of "deprivation." The deprivation can occur because of some external factor(s), or because instead of writing something, anything, no matter what, we just fail to write. In Overcome Writer's Block Easily I don't address reasons that we don't write because for the most part, once we make up our minds to write, we can keep ourselves moving. Still, it is important to note that there will be times (hopefully short) that this does not happen, and we then experience a burst of activity. So why not enjoy the burst?