One moment of excitable inhalation

I can barely believe what just happened! Indeed, I can so barely believe it that I am using exclamation marks in a flagrant and downright wilful fashion! Without due regard for health and safety laws! I have rarely been so animated! Or excitable!

Where was I? Oh yes. What just happened, and barely believing it.

Well, I thought … deep breath … I thought that I had an idea. For something to write. Something good. And new. To write. Something. In words. And sentences. WIth punctuation. Yes.

Then I realised that I had simply drunk too much coffee.

More updates on writer’s block (for the sake of my sanity, I am steadfastly refusing to call it blogger’s block) as and when exciting developments occur. Stay tuned. In the meantime, please entertain yourselves by admiring the attached photograph of a brick wall.

Mmm, it’s a lovely brick wall, isn’t it?

Comments: 14

    Huh! You think you’re special! I can get that entirely deceptive feeling of having something to write….. without the coffee!!!

    May I write on your wall? Oh no, that’s somewhere else, right?

    bohémienne | 09.21.07, 14:34

    Do not despair. I have the only proven cure for writer’s block the world has ever known. A heavily guarded secret that’s been in my family for generations, one which I will now pass on to…

    Oooh, look! A pretty brick wall! *splat*

    Ani | 09.21.07, 14:58

    *waves in sympathy*

    (I too have been going through a barren spell of late.)

    edvard moonke | 09.21.07, 15:04

    Mind if I paint your wall? Much more fun watching it dry… (the pain, not the wall, or you mind).

    Gordon | 09.21.07, 15:41

    Cor, you must live somewhere right posh to have a wall with no graffiti.

    Angelalala | 09.21.07, 16:47

    Don’t blame the coffee! Please, don’t blame the coffee (for your excitability) and overuse of exclamation marks!!!!

    clarissa | 09.21.07, 19:52

    This wall really has particularly interesting perspective lines.

    It reminds me of this famous title in a French satirical journal, years and years back, about the recent autobiography of a boring political personality: “Thirty years in a wall - the life of a brick”.

    You’re welcome.

    Chloé | 09.22.07, 01:51

    hello we’ve synched again, I’ve been brickwalling recently too…

    peach | 09.22.07, 14:43

    Bohémienne - Yes, but the coffee makes the writer’s block … So! Much! More! Exhilarating!

    Ani - Um, mind the wall, dear. Oh, you didn’t. Um, does it hurt? Much?

    Edvard - *waves back, whilst drowning*

    Gordon - As long as you don’t go painting it any hideous colours.

    Angelalala - We have posh graffiti sprayers round these parts. They can spell and stuff. Amazing.

    Clarissa - Have no fear. I am not blaming the coffee. I love coffee.

    Chloe - Thank you for being the first person to examine the wall so closely and, indeed, to pontificate upon it. Well, apart from Ani, who just went smashing into it.

    Peach - You have my sympathy, empathy and apathy. Well, no, you don’t have my apathy. We both have apathy. I think. Oh, you know what I mean …

    An Unreliable Witness | 09.22.07, 16:37

    There are no walls, only opportunities.

    (Please feel free to smack me).

    lillipilli | 09.22.07, 21:56

    Smart brick wall! It made some nice comments about my hair and the way I dress.

    miss july | 09.22.07, 22:43

    Don’t blame the coffee for your exclamation marks - they’ve just been lurking there longing to break free, but you’ve suppressed them because you’ve always told yourself you were A Proper Writer and didn’t need to use them.

    But you wanted to, didn’t you? You nurtured them in secret, and wouldn’t let them die. You whispered to them that their day would come, just as soon as you could find a plausible excuse.

    Well, this won’t do it all. Put them back in the box, and drown them. Go on. You’ll feel better for it. Then you can write a touching post on the tragic demise of gratuitous punctuation.

    (And if that doesn’t work, then at least you’ve always got that handy brick wall).

    Melograna | 09.23.07, 07:42

    Lillipilli - Every wall is an opportunity, yes. Particularly for a brick. And I look quite brick-like.

    Miss July - I will thank the brick wall on your behalf later. I only have the better class of brick wall round here.

    Melograna - Damn, you saw right through me.

    An Unreliable Witness | 09.23.07, 19:44

    Shush, walls have ears you know.

    Can you recognise them?

    NAGA | 09.24.07, 12:26

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