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- Ruth Coker Burks learned early in life the true value of a cemeteryand "EVERYTHING" that is buried there. At ten years of age, Ruth's grandmother died in an automobile accident..The trauma of the accident dulled compared to the family fight that ensued...Ruth's eccentric mother bought 262 grave spaces in the family cemetery. ALL of the remaining spaces so that her mother's own brother, Uncle Fred, and his family could not be buried with the rest of the family..Ruth's mother then put up her marker that read in part, "Woe be unto you hypocrites, Pharisees and scribes" paraphrased from Matthew 23..to suit her needs..Throughout the next decade all Ruth heard from both her mother, and the family was about the cemetery and "that marker" Ruth has since donated the cemetery as a final resting place for over forty AIDS patients whose families had abandoned them in their greatest time of need. Ruth struggles with dyslexia which keeps everything interesting.. Punctuation is an issue, so please forgive. eecummingsisherhero All works, stories and photographs and likeness are copyrighted. written consent Last2cu is the TM of Ruth Coker Burks. Copyright 2000-2015. All rights reserved.
Getting writers block in Composition II in college is probably different than after a stroke. When the block would hit me, I would tell myself to put the pencil to the paper and just start free writing. It worked for me, and after several thousand revisions of my free writing, I aced Comp I and II, clepping out of Comp III. :)
ReplyDeleteI always get my best ideas in the bathtub.
ReplyDeleteIt will come in time....you do great work!
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Ruth, I had a hemorrhagic stroke in 2007. Although I had no noticeable physical repercussions from it, I do seem to find it more difficult now to write. Even when I know what I want to write about, and sometimes even words I want to use to say it, I dread the starting. Once I actually do start, everything is fine, and if I'm not happy with what I wrote, I have no problem with revising until I'm satisfied. It's not that I can't think of words, nor is there any disconnect between the thinking and the saying or writing. It's just sort of a feeling of what I call gum-brain... as though my brain is somehow resisting the thinking process... as if the gray matter has turned to sludge.
ReplyDeleteSo, now that you've mentioned this, I am trying to figure out if my gum-brain might be stroke-related. I've been assuming it's age-related. In whatever case, as I look back on what I wrote before the stroke and what I've written since, I find that before, I used to do more creative writing than I do now. Since the stroke, more of my writing is factual rather than imaginative.
I'm curious to know if your writer's block feels like what I've described as gum-brain, or if you can describe how it differs from my description of gum-brain.