Imagination unleashed from Writer's Block

I feel like a Catholic who has not been to confession in too long. 

Only it is me, the penitent writer, who has not written much in so very long. So, I think my confession would go something like this: 

"Forgive me Readers for I have sinned. It has been almost four years since my last blog/confession ..."

Do I have reasons for being so long away? Of course, I do. My mother's stroke, my life-changing surgery, my mother's death, my dad's health, the pandemic, work stress, life stress, health issues, and a zillion other problems and distractions that plague modern people with little demons that tug them away from what they were meant to be doing. 

Some people were meant to be growing gardens but never got the energy to do it for the last year or two. Some people dropped off their exercise routine and their dream of doing a 10K or a marathon has shriveled up and died. The "thing" is different for everyone. 

My thing is writing. My non-fiction writing has never really stopped, but for some reason, the fiction and poetry disappeared. The ideas became dull and finally dried up. It could have been for any number of reasons. My own mental health in light of some of the things listed above being among them. I simply felt no drive whatsoever. 

However, over the last year or so things have changed. Particularly in the last six months. My dreams have started speaking to me again and the ideas have been coming as if a great dam has broken. 

This is exciting. Only another writer could tell you what it's like to feel like one's mind has been imprisoned. I am on a mission to do away with distractions. I plan to journal this process in a blog. It is my hope that this will keep me motivated and help someone else out there find a light at the end of the tunnel. I thought my identity as a fiction writer was done. 

It was not. My imagination has been unleashed from it's writer's block prison. I could not be more grateful to have it back.

It's time to get my act together. Let us begin.