12/24/12
It’s a tragic thing when a writer no longer trusts an empty page. Recently I’ve let a lot of creative thoughts disappear instead of running to the nearest piece of paper and writing them down. In those moments when I was on I used to text lines to myself and get them on my laptop as soon as possible. But at present I have allowed space to come in between myself and my passion and I’m not sure what it is. I mean it’s not writers block. Maybe it’s just a pause. Perhaps I need to freeze my dream for a little bit in order to analyze it and make sure I’m doing what I can to make it tangible.
I wonder if this happens to anyone else.
-YB
ghettosun 
Yes. I think we all need breaks from anything we love.
Yesterday, I read an interview w/ Tanekeya Word. The interviewer asked her why she took a year off from painting:
“I needed to figure things out, like, what is it that I really want to do? How does my art contribute to society or to the bigger picture? I had not found my statement yet. And I hadn’t found my voice. I was always painting in just a cathartic way. There was no rhyme and reason to what I was doing. It was just coming out and I liked it, but for me it has to contribute something to society and it has to have a voice. Like in my writing, it has a voice, it has a thesis and it has a conclusion. I did not feel like the art, at the time, had that. If you look at my old artwork, none of that is cohesive.”
It feels good to be felt by someone 😉