From my English journal, circa October 1982:
Writer’s Block
This is not the first time this year. Oh yes, I’ve had plenty of writer’s block.
I have ideas, but I just can’t put them down on paper.
So what do I do? I sit … and think … I look around … look at recent happenings … it usually does no good.
Other times I’ll write anything in my mind down onto a piece of scratch paper and see what I can do with them.
So what happens when none of these work? I lay [sic] down and read, stand on my head, go jogging, or even … watch TV.
All of these have been proven to work as some earlier journal topics of mine were inspired by one of these methods.
Now, the ultimate disaster … none of these methods work [sic]. What do I do? I write about it. Gosh, I didn’t know I could write so much about such an off-the-wall topic, but there it is, no more writer’s block.
I was already quite the blogger a quarter of a century ago.