Creativity or the lack of it.

As I keep going through some blogs on the net, I am amazed by the amount of creativity they contain. And they show how much creativity mine lacks. Its a revelation. I always try to post something that sounds interesting. Unfortunately, I never complete it because I run out of ideas the moment I type, "It was a dark and stormy night." I never go past that line. Must be something to do with the so called "writer's block". Or it could be that creativity is the domain of a select few and I don't belong to that club.

So I decided to abandon blogging and pick up writing (that way I can keep myself busy and be off blogging for a long time). I keep reading about so many people who quit their cushy jobs and then wrote a book which eventually became a NY Times bestseller (raking millions for the author in the process) that I am frequently tempted to follow the road taken by them. So far, better reason has prevailed and I am still sticking to my job which is the sole source of my bread and butter (and jam). But then I couldn't resist googling "How to write a book?". Result? You guessed it right. I come up with so many hits that I could easily write a book about it. But some people have already beaten me to it and come up in the search hits. There are books which teach you how to write. There are workshops that teach you how to write. There are tips given by other authors on how to write fiction, non-fiction, science-fiction, etc. And then there are podcasts. Whew! The information is overwhelming. I guess that there are so many souls out there who want to write or want to teach someone how to write that I can say for sure that there won't be a library in the world that could store all those books. Which is good. Books are always good. But now the challenge is to find a good site. I have been sifting through some and it will take some time before I can even go through at least 1% of them. I might as well write a book first. There's something even on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y99p13p6hvE).

I will go through these sites and see what works for me best. Lezzee. So for now, I am planning to do my homework about writing. And then I will write. Till that time, I blog. Ah! for the want of creativity. Ciao.