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I am suffering at this moment from a mild case of writer’s block. How do I know it? Because I am writing about it … that’s how!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I never heard this tip from the source himself. It came to me via a fellow editorial writer and editor. He’s a dear friend and he told me that Paul Greenberg, the late, great editorial writer who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 writing for the PIne Bluff (Ark.) Commercial, that the “best way to cure writer’s block is to read the Psalms.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

You’re thinking: How does reading Old Testament Scripture cure writer’s block? My answer? Beats the stuffing out of me. I cannot ask Paul now, sadly, because he’s gone to his great reward.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I figure it will pass. I have gotten them before. They fade away eventually. To be honest, the events of 9\/11 I thought had all but cured me of writer’s block. That terrible day unleashed a torrent of responses that demanded commentary, which I was doing in September 2001 writing for the Globe-News in Amarillo, Texas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I know the president provides grist. To be candid, Donald Trump is boring me. The commentary I hear online and on TV also bores me.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I said the other day I was returning to my bash-Trump self. I still intend to do so.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Just not today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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I am suffering at this moment from a mild case of writer’s block. How do I know it? Because I am writing about it … that’s how! I never heard this tip from the source himself. It came to me via a fellow editorial writer and editor. He’s a dear friend and he told me … Continue reading Cure for writer’s block?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1424,2978,10515],"class_list":["post-59263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-media","tag-writers-block"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59265,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59263\/revisions\/59265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}