The Simple Solution

I recently visited the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.  There are 3 buildings, the Jefferson, the Madison and the Adams, that make up the LOC.  Probably the best known is the Jefferson.

There's an underground tunnel from the Jefferson building that leads to the Visitor Center for the US Capitol building.  After visiting the new Visitor Center, I went through the tunnel and into the Jefferson building.

During this visit, I discovered all the media displays - there's a room devoted to comedic legend Bob Hope and other displays such as the Thomas Jefferson library.  You can view the incredible architecture leading up to the viewing area for the reading room.  Only a certain few get to read or research in the reading room.  Have I been in there?  Yes.  I was with a Researcher friend at the time.

One of my favorite parts of the Jefferson building is the gift shop.  Maybe I like gift shops, maybe I don't but this one has all sorts of unusual things for sale.  The last time I was there, I picked up a small booklet designed for writers, designed for fending off writers block.  What it really is, is a small bound journal.  It has a small pocket in the back for notes or keepsakes and certain parts of the paper are perforated for tearing out the sheets.

I do use it.  I do write a sentence or two in it about every day.  Has it helped me with writer's block?  Not so much, I don't usually suffer from that because I'm usually writing something, anything in the capacities I work in as a writer nearly every day.

I did come to this conclusion:  to stop writer's block, why it's simple!  To stop writer's block, just stop writing, don't be a writer!

There, the secret is out, the cure is easy.  Stop writing as a writer?  Not hardly!

Keep writing, keep reading, keep jotting those notes down, those words when you feel it, see it, dream it, but just keep writing.