{"id":36146,"date":"2025-04-01T11:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T16:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36146"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:36:47","slug":"my-magical-antidote-to-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=36146","title":{"rendered":"My Magical antidote to “Writer’s Block”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I began writing for the Reader Weekly – “the best newspaper money can’t buy” I would often struggle to find the perfect subject to write about. There were so many and I told Bob Boone who was really looking for some competent “conservative” to add to his all too numerous liberal writers. I also told Bob that I was barely a Republican and that I didn’t want to be pigeon holed into politics. <\/p>\n

This was six years before blogs became popular but even then I treated my 1999 website: www.snowbizz.com<\/a> as a blog. When I took up my blog Lincolndemocrat I didn’t feel the need to suffer the damned Reader deadlines that were initially harrowing. So I stopped writing for the Reader. Until the Red Plan. Then I mostly retired until my 1992 prophecy came true and Trump swallowed the Republican party while the party swallowed his semen with relish. In the old days I had a more forgiving editor who would take my submissions as late as Monday instead of my new tyrant’s Friday deadlines. I had all weekend to fuss around. <\/p>\n

Writer’s block is a stereotypical problem for writers. I grew up watching movies about writers wadding up their lousy work and tossing it in the waste basket in frustration. Since Donald Trump became President I’ve had no shortage of things to pontificate about. Its more like I’m trying to swallow Niagara Falls. The man starts fires as prodigiously as rabbits make baby rabbits and Donald Trump has big hands<\/em>. He is always “in season.” <\/p>\n

So too have been the piles of papers on my office floor as I have attempted to put out Trump’s fires with my typing fingers. The topics out race me. But in the last few weeks I seem to be catching up….I want to write another book or two or three and keep the Reader columns flying….I also set up a substack<\/a> and might try to get back to loading broadcasts on Spotify<\/a>. I have a campaign page I might rebuild if I decide to chase after Trump’s semen swallower Pete Stauber a fifth time. <\/p>\n

The photo above shows what I’m doing to keep the many threads on my loom from fraying. It shows a couple of the two dozen three-ring-binders that keep me organized. I have a lot more ideas in old emails and notes to myself on my cell phone to add to the standing binder. I borrowed title I slapped on the idea binder for this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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