Inspiration Ink
I complained to my author friend that I have writer's block. He lives in Japan and we communicate primarily via email. We're writing a 100-chapter novel together and so far we have eight hilarious chapters. I have no problem meeting my weekly deadline for the collaboration project but the novel in my heart is sitting on my desktop staring at me. Every day the characters ask me questions to try and get the ball rolling. I hear their voices. Taylor: "What's my dog's name?" Phillip: "How many people am I supposed to kill?" Angie: "What do I look like?" My friend responded to my complaint with a quote from Robert Parker: "Writer's block is just another name for laziness." I fired back an indignant reply: I am not lazy; I sit on my fat ass in this chair all day long and proofread hundreds of pages, pore through reference books and obscure websites doing exhaustive research, and at the end of the day my brain is sad and it just want...