It's often hard to start writing. Books have been written about writers' block. I sometimes have a hard time, especially if I am trying to write a new type of genre. This semester, it's poetry in Marilyn Chin's class at SDSU. But luckily, the day Word's blank page was looming over me, I had seen the search of Gadhafi's trailer in Libya on TV. They found this scrapbook of cutout pictures from magazines, all of Condoleezza Rice. I was off and running. How did he really feel about her? What else did he do? I looked on the internet, but mostly I imagined and wrote about this creepy and fascinating obsession with Rice. So, keep a mind open for strange bits from the news, strange smells or sounds, strange impressions of any kind. They could give you a blowtorch to melt away writers' block. And BTW, Rice's biography which has more information about the obsession, was released Nov 1, 2011. Check it out!
