On writer's block...
You'd never know it to look at the amount of writing I'm currently pumping through plasticbag.org at the moment, but I'm currently experiencing a fairly alarming creative block. I have three pieces of longer writing on the go at the moment - three pieces that are addressing issues that I often write about on this site (the relationship between personal and mainstream publishing, the relationship between weblogs and journalism, and the implicit politics of the discussion board). None of them are going well. Each and every one of them is in my head in an essentially complete form, but there's something between my mind and my fingers that is interfering with their transcription. This is yet another one of the reasons I left academia - because the process of writing became a painful and difficult one - a situation rife with angst in it's literal Old High German sense... Eurgh...
