Sigh. How do you get an IDEA out from your head and onto paper? Someone once described writer's block as simple fear. Maybe that's true. Maybe I just need to sit down and Do It.

Maybe I need to quit thinking of myself as a writer, and the writing will come unbidden. Irony: I once started to write a story about that (using a fantasy metaphor of powers that only mature when you stop wanting them to do so), but (of course!) I never finished it.

Maybe the time isn't right--after all, how many good stories have come out of exhaustion and new parenthood? Um... a hell of a lot, Squelch. Shut up.

If I were a superhero, I would want my superpower to be Story Sense.

Is it just this: it's easier to be creative at 21 than at 30? Maybe.

Maybe it's time to open Clarence's card. No... not yet. (I am a seagull! No... not that...)