Slumps That Won’t End Themselves

A little help here, please

Anne Chisom
2 min readJun 11, 2024
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

Are you tired of writers complaining about feeling depressed? Or stuck? Out of ideas?

Me too.

But please bear with me while I let some of my down-spirited, mental malaise-ic, tiresome Boring-Itis depart my mind, I plan to write at it till it leaves.

The intention behind this novel (pun definitely intended) idea is to create brain-space for new ideas to move in.

If this idea works, I can resume writing and submitting my articles and poems if not daily at least weekly.

I hope you’re still with me, because you may also be a writer who freezes (so to speak) when encouraged to write only in whatever your niche is. I am sure I am not the only non-nicher or reluctant nicher around.

Actually, I don’t niche well. I’m not an expert in anything, and ever since I retired I haven’t kept up with the changes in my field, which was real estate.

I don’t have any desire to write steadily about getting old. Writing about growing old throws me back into the malaise I mentioned above.

There are already some terrific writers on Medium and other platforms who I don’t think I can compete with when producing articles, stories, or poems about the inevitable changes…

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Anne Chisom

Writing on whatever strikes my mood, from politics to humor (or a combination of the two), to spirituality, or whatever else shows up. Retired, not in retreat.