Writer's Flat Line

Take a look at this chart. Get the picture? Don't stop writing or your peaks will flat line. Creativity will succumb to extinction like a roach succumbs to Billy The Exterminator.

This is a blogger's statistics chart. Not bad in the early years. But what in the name of Chia Pets happened?




Divorce
Double knee replacement
An acoustic neuroma
Drugs
Death in the family
An affair
Depression
Dieting disaster
Animal rescue

Pictures are not worth a thousand words. Nothing is. To a writer, a thousand words can paint a picture. And every time a writer's pen flat lines, her stories die. Dead stories immobilize her. And before she realizes it, she no longer considers herself a writer.

In her mind, she struggles to make a sentence. Pen and paper lie dormant on the desk looking like ancient relics from another place and time. The brain's neurotransmitters need a jumpstart. The synapse needs to fire. Send a deadly jolt to electrocute the laziness and electrify the motivation towards the desire to write. The sleeping author will wake up. She'll set goals and control her destiny. She will write and create and vow to never flat line again.