What can we do when we suffer from "writers' block"?
Well there are a number of things:
1. Take a day or two off and don't worry about it.
2. Sit stubbornly staring at a blank screen driving yourself crazy.
3. Read a newspaper article and re-type it changing names, verbs and adjectives, adding a few words of your own when it seems appropriate to do so.
I have "writer's block" today so I think I'll give the 3rd suggestion a try and just see what transpires.
OH MY - LOOK - I ENDED UP WITH A TRUE STORY FROM NEWBY ISLE OF WIGHT. HOW AMAZING IS THAT?
John Purvis, the Mayor of Newby, could be moved out of Newby village despite a request by Mrs. Millicent Molly Mayhew, member of the Women's Institute, that he should spend his life serving behind the bar for only 'board and lodge' in the local pub.
John Purvis, Mayor of Newby, has disgraced the village. He is said to have married 9 women and attempted to get engaged to 3 others during an 11 year period whilst living in Newby village, on The Isle of Wight between 1984 and 1995.
He said he heard the voice of his mother speaking to him from her house on Thornbush Terrace whilst he was working, painting the kitchen, telling him to marry 9 women and get engaged to another 3.
He was given several tea-sets at his last wedding in 1992 but no teatowels on which to dry them. Until now!
Mrs. Millicent Molly Mayhew said that rarely does she give teatowels as a wedding gift, but she was willing to make an exception in Purvis's case as it seemed totally appropriate.
"The pathetic gifts he and his wife received, from the single men in this village, speak for themselves," she commented
This was a vindictive campaign run by jealous villagers who have terrorized the village for years, attempting get just ONE woman to marry them, with no success. Their behaviour speaks for itself.
Apart from their jealous outrage it is difficult to accept any other explanation why one man should receive so many tea-sets and not one bleeding teatowel," Millicent concluded.
She also disclosed that two of the men were her brothers, one her uncle and three were, indeed her nephews.
John Purvis will not immediately lose his position as Mayor of Newby but is to undergo some 'psychological testing' likely to take place, in secret, at a mental facility in nearby Ryde.
Dick Dangler, owner of the "Dog and Duck" pub said,
"It isn't just about his mental state. He has made a mockery out of the institute of marriage."
When asked if HE was married, Dick Dangler replied,
"If I told you I was one of them who gave him a tea-set at his last wedding, would that answer your question?'
Purvis, who is hard of hearing, slightly anorexic, said,
"Eh?"
The discussion about Purvis's situation is said to have cost Dick Dangler a total of 20 quid in free drinks 'pulled' for those attending the meeting in his pub.
