The very idea of writer’s block is enough to make you mad —really, really mad.

• Don’t you hate the screaming silence of a wordless page?
• Turns out, getting mad is a good way to blow off writer’s block

And it took a florist to show me how.

A Maddening Challenge

A favorite site of mine is Creative Copy Challenge

• This fun place posts 10 words or phrases that visitors turn into a story or poem
• Currently there are over 200 writers – professional and non-professional

Lately, the words have gotten so tough that Shane Arthur, creator of this great site, added definitions to the more bizarre words.

Challenge #110 has to be the toughest one yet —

• I know because I have taken all 110 challenges
• What can I say – it’s addicting

One of the community members, Margaret, who is an awesome florist, is the Queen of Poems at CCC and very, very funny.

• When Margaret saw the words for the Challenge, she got mad
• And then she got funny
• Margaret blasted any writer’s block to smithereens

Here is a snippet of Margaret’s submission (the words in bold are words from the Challenge.)

I tend to get grumpy and regress to my canid nature and any wisp of my normally sweet self is nowhere to be found. Although usually overflowing with verve and a fecund wellspring of ideas, I fear I may have to rely on eleemosynary aegis to keep me from going postal…..

To Keep From Going Postal

I always write my story before reading the other submissions. After reading Margaret’s submission, I realized something.

I got ticked off at the words, too.

• I thought about skipping the Challenge
• Usually the story starts almost as soon as I see the words
• With this Challenge – nothing
• That screaming silence
• Oh no, the dreaded writer’s block

Fortunately, my writer’s block was in reality a child-sized building block.

• Within minutes, I took up the Challenge
• I didn’t give up – I got mad
• I took the screaming silence and gave it words
• I blasted the writer’s block to smithereens

That writer’s block is no more than our fears in a box.

• We can let it stop us in our tracks
• We can open it up and analyze its contents – or –
• We can get mad and blast it to smithereens

Leave it to a florist to show us how to grow.

How do you handle writer’s block?

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