You
know when you can't think of anything to write, you just sit and
stare at your blank page and look this way and that letting thoughts
wonder in and out of your head, and through and around and back and
forth. Sometimes you rewind them and then fast forward them really
quickly. Most times they just drift in and out like clouds, lazy
white ones though, not the stormy ones, those usually stick around
for a while, and anyway, they aren't really writing conducive clouds.
The lazy white ones are, cumulus or cumulonimbus, or something or
other. The feather ones will even do for a bit of writing, but not
stormy, that's generally poem stuff and even then, they tend to come
out disjointed and rather terrible. Suffice it to say, stormy clouds
aren't great for the whole creative process.
So
where was I? Ah yes, white clouds , the lazy ones specifically.
Actually today isn't even a lazy white clouds kind of day, even on
those days thoughts tend to stick every now and then, like when a big
cloud comes along and stays a while. Today, nothing is sticking,
today is a blue sky kinda day. Or at least a wispy cloud day, I
dislike those little wispy ones, they are almost a tease. Might as
well go for the all blue, or a partly cloudy, at least then you can
sit and watch them pass and guess the shapes and let your imagination
go running away with you. The wispy ones though, they might as well
be smoke! In fact, they probably are. Stupid pollution, ruining my
blue sky! I do like blue skies by the way, who doesn't? I'm sure
there's someone out there who doesn't, trying to defy the mold and
all that crap. But blue skies are great! They're pleasant and leave
room for lots of sun, they're just not the best for thinking, you
know? At least the kind of thinking that gets things done, or goes
somewhere. I mean think about it! All that empty space, what's there
to hold your thoughts in? Roofs? Yeah I suppose they can a little,
but I find they usually hold them back a bit. Clouds are good for
holding thoughts, they are allowed to float high and free and
unhindered. Roofs are okay so long as you don't need too much
thinking to do, or to high a thought to think. They're definitely
good for those desk jobs, but if you ever have one that requires a
lot of thoughts to be thinking, it can get awful crowded in there,
like something fierce. And then of course it's just too noisy to
think with all those thoughts floating around with no where to go.
Sure opening a window sometimes helps, but then what? All the good
ones, that is to say the smart, creative ones go out the window and
you're left with the stupid ones, who of course are the noisier of
the bunch.
I
suppose you could write them down, but it still doesn't quite work as
well. And besides, when you go back to them later they can be a
confusing mess, or worse, a great thought but you're unable to
remember where it was leading. Besides, aren't you suppose to be
working!?
All
said and done, if you have the time, writing thoughts down is
probably the best method for keeping them. It gets them out, and if
you're patient and persistent, cleans them up a bit. Sure sometimes
they come out crap and all a bumbled, discombobulated mess. But
sometimes they come out great, and you can even get a whole story
out! Or at least the start of one, which is always exciting. Sure
enough though, most times you just end up rambling about clouds, and
you know what? That's okay, because you'll probably end up feeling
better anyway. And before you know it, you did what you said you
should do, which was write something, and look at you, you've almost
done a page and a half of unimpeded writing. Who cares if the main
subjects of the majority of the sentences were about clouds! Maybe
you're a meteorologist, or a skyline painter or photographer, or
maybe you just have your head in the clouds? Course I don't, it's a
blue sky day...
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