Unblocked

[Rene Blansette]

I don't now what else I could call it except it was a creative block. If I was just a writer, I would call it a writer's block, but for about three months now, I had a hard time doing stuff. I just couldn't come up with anything workable. Ideas were few and far between. I had a goal of this year of doing a comic book page a week. I stopped drawing after thirteen weeks. Then I worked on the first draft of a script for my first graphic novel. After that: Nothing. It might have been a combination of things that were going through my life, mostly bad. Things seemed to be falling apart, figuratively and literally. (for example, the air conditioning conked out in both my house and car and not enough money, due to cutbacks at work, to repair either.)
It seems like I frequenty have periods where my creative juices dry up for a while. I could be chuigging away at a project or two and boom! Something comes along that throws me off, like illness, and it seems to take forever and a day to get back into the groove.

But things are beginning to look up. A month ago, i wrote my first story in a long time and a couple of days ago, I started a painting which I have worked on tonight. It's based on a drawing I did several months ago, but at least it's something. I started this year with the intention of being an art making fool. Maybe I can end it that way.