Day 53 - Scraping Mae Muller's Skull for the Sparsest of Minerals

At some point I think I will take a break from this but in order to do that I need to ensure I have an equally productive replacement for this daily enforcement. Currently on the horizon are comedy sketches and reading back through these blog entries to try to do something with all this genius prose. I'm not sure exactly what it is but I seem to be hitting a wall more than previously. Either I'm realising some form of depression or I don't actually have many thoughts in my head and I'm beginning to scrape my skull for the sparsest of minerals.

Maybe a break will re-energise my brain. Conversely it might have the opposite effect, after all the point in this daily exercise was to wake it up. Will anything energise it? I'll keep plodding unenthusiastically on for now. I'm sure this motivational lull will make for great reading. It's annoying that for my own good I have to force myself to do everything.

What even is this entry? Is this anything? Does this count as coming up with something? Just talking about trying to write what I'm writing as I'm writing it. The UK's Eurovision entry the other day was a song about writing a song so at least I can find some solace in Mae Muller. Although she did finish 2nd last, was generally pretty poor and I have zero intention of ever listening to that song again, so it's not the most reassuring company. 

I wonder if Mae Muller also worried about scraping her skull for sparse minerals.

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