I am attempting to write through this writer’s block. Yes! The writers block I have had since November of 2013. No! I’m not kidding. It’s beginning to grind my gears to the point of wanting to scream.
The last few days I have wrote a few stories. Nothing big. But stories nonetheless. It still takes me a bit to do it and I have cheated a little with writing poetry. But small is better than nothing, correct? I may be kidding myself, but I am trying.
I decided to give a new writing style a try. See if I get the creative juices flowing. What style? Limerick. For non writers out there that is scratching their forehead trying to remember from school what a “limerick” is, let me enlighten you. A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict meter. The rhyme scheme is usually A-A-B-B-A. Lines one and two end in the same rhyme. Lines three and four end in the same rhyme. Line five ends in the same rhyme as one and two.
Example:
There was an old man with a beard,
Who said, “It is just as I feared! –
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren
Have all built their nests in my beard.”
-Edward Lear, “A Book of Nonsense”
I have yet to actually try and write one. But I plan on it. Tomorrow. Maybe?