I can't write.

[WilliamPitt]

I can't.

Been staring at my keyboard all day. Haven't written a word.

I have a deadline, and I'm screwed. I have nothing in the tank, and I can't begin to find the words.

How do you describe this? Explain this? Quantify it? Hah.

It's too big.

I need some coffee.

[porphyrian]

1. Try writing something completely unrelated.

Sometimes that works.

[itsmesgd]

2. title suggestion..."the bloodless revolution"

[sazemisery]

3. Scotch might help

[WilliamPitt]

5. Bad idea

and besides, I'm all out. :)

[Cleita]

58. Just make up a laundry list for the new congress.

I would start with investigations of this adminstration for war crimes.

Then maybe investigations as to whether they have committed treason. Is Prince Bandar our defacto President or the man behind the curtain?

The bankrupting of America and selling it to China and the Saudis.

Then more ordinary things for Congress to tackle like education, health care, the environment and global warming.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. You taste the freedom. It's the pause that refreshes.

You do so much work that you get to rest a minute. Thanks for what you do. Hope it writes itself on time.

[WilliamPitt]

7. No rest

The real work starts now.

[CrispyQ]

24. "The real work starts now."

Well there you go! That's what you should write about. It's what I've been telling my friends & family for weeks now -- If we win, that's when the real work starts!

Maybe a walk outdoors will help kick start the brain cells. ;)

[VelmaD]

30. Write about that

That the real work starts now. There's a lot to do and we all have to put the same energy into it now that we did before the election. :)

[ladyVet]

80. Well, there you go.

Tell people this is not the end, it's the beginning. The real work starts now.

But whatever you write, I know it will be as moving, informative and uplifting as always.

[dave29]

6. We won

alot

and stuff

[nini]

8. say exactly what you just said

You're so blown away it's hard to put it in words - start with that - then it will flow.

[helderheid]

9. The revolution WILL be televised

[Waya]

10. Calm down.......

.deep breath....look at the map of the US of A...in (lots of) glorious blue.....it'll come to ya.....:)

[Patsy Stone]

11. I quote Linus Van Pelt:

"And there were in the same country shepherds, abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them! And they were sore afraid ... And the angel said unto them, "Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings o great joy, which shall be to all my people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ, the Lord.

"And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." And suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly Host praising God, and saying, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on Earth peace, and good will toward men.

"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."

[JackBeck]

12. Did you hear the Britney and K-Fed are divorcing?

And that she texted him to tell him during an interview?

[TheBaldyMan]

27. what's the text short hand for I want a divorce?

Kids today are far more sophsticated than my generation.

[mdmc]

I'll start you off

"If I had a hammer"....

You can take it from here bro!

[trumad]

13. You talking about the Pats loss last Sunday...

[crispini]

14. I completely understand.

I don't suppose you could just write "Squeeeeeee! YEAH! Yippeeeeee!" over and over?

I didn't think so. :P

[Richard Steele]

15. This post would make a fine opening paragraph.

You know you can't write- write what you know.

[stop the bleeding]

16. how about the next step(s)

you know a way to rally the base but keep their eyes on the prize(s)

[Horse with no Name]

17. Write a refresher course on Iran Contra

and how the new players correlate with that.:)

[crispini]

25. God Gad, woman!

How about just a paen of rejoicing for once! :hug: lol You're getting all serious on us, and I'm still on my WINNAH! high. :D

[Horse with no Name]

That's cause your part of Texas is BLUE

Mine is still RED. :pout:

:toast: And by the way...you simply ROCK!:hug:

[crispini]

44. LOL.

:hug: You rock too. Patience, sweet thing, patience and shoe leather. Keep up the faith! We were 20 years in the woods.

[Nickster]

28. That would be a great idea. Get in front of the story, because you know

that Poppy is bringing in more Iran-Contra figures.

[MuseRider]

34. I agree.

It is a lesson we need to learn about letting criminals go just because they hold high office. We have to learn before they will.

It is certainly time to be happy but we need to learn this before any more get away to be recycled again.

[KoKo]

60. Check out the Gates/Manucher Ghorbanifar connection and then

Ghorbanifar's connection to Michael Ledeen, Chalabi and run up to Iraq Invasion.

There's tons of research archived here on DU and even a simple Google might get your juices flowing. Contact DU'er Solly Mack who knows where the stuff is.

Good Luck! It's hard to think straight today... It just hasn't quite sunken in for those of us who've been around here awhile, I think.

:-)'s Hard work ahead though...

[rman]

62. One of those huge dots that the MSM dare not connect.

And yet so obvious.
Start with Nixon and work your way to the present. Just look at the big players.

[EFerrari]

79. You'd have to start out,"It's true. George Bush can't appoint anyone

whose hands are clean!"

lol

[uppityperson]

18. Here...

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. :cry: ha ha ha ha ha. Wow! ha ha ha ha ha (etc)

[Red Right and BLUE]

19. Be late!

Write HUGE piece and take your time. We don't mind waiting. :)

[Dogmudgeon]

20. So, write that

"Where do we go from here?"

LOTS of people are having that air-sucking moment today, especially Bush, who customarily acts without thinking. Only this time, he might just have lucked into a successful decision.

Weep. Laugh. Write.

--p!

[TayTay]

21. Sometimes it is about "We the People"

And about all those folks you have talked about who really, really cared and who showed up to reclaim America.

So, tell me already, what does it mean to them? The ones who can't get out of Stop-Loss? The ones who can't get their kids a decent education because of the cost? The ones who can't get decent jobs because the jobs have been outsourced. Oh, and the ones who have no health care and practice 'faith-based' medicine, but not by choice.

Tell me about them and what this means for them going forward. Then tell me something about Iraq. Something, dare I say it, hopeful.

[baby_mouse]

22. Darling...Have a latte.

;-)

[SmokingJacket]

23. I know what you mean.

I can't even *feel* coherently right now -- certainly wouldn't be able to write about it.

[Coexist]

26. call it "The long journey home"

how the American public rediscovered that hope liberates you more than paranioa, and came back to what makes us great, instead of what makes us afraid. We turned back to our beloved principles of freedom.

[stop the bleeding]

31. great title, for a start

of a great article

[dogday]

29. How about with Once upon a time there was a Political Party......

and then take it from there....

[Yavin4]

32. Walk Outside

Take a deep breath.

Let out a Dean scream.

Go back to work.

[LSK]

33. hate to bring you back to reality

But beware of the Lame Duck session.

[goodboy]

Pitt, you don't need coffee, you need:

<>

[jus_the_facts]

35. "We've only just begun..."

White lace and promises

A kiss for luck and we're on our way

We've only just begun


Before the rising sun we fly

So many roads to choose

We start our walking

And learn to run

And yes!

We've only just begun


Sharin' horizons that are new to us

Watchin' the signs along the way

Talkin' it over just the two of us

Workin' together day to day, together


And when the evening comes we smile

So much of life ahead

We'll find a place where there's room to grow

And yes! We've only just begun

[applegrove]

36. Go get some green tea. It will increase your metabolism and you'll

feel great after a few cuppa.

[Gregorian]

37. Fox does it pretty well.

Look, you have one news cycle to just go in neutral. Sit back. Reflect on what has been.

The way I see it, December 2000 just ended. It has been one long battle.

And just up ahead there's a scandalanche about to tumble down the slopes of corruptionland.

Yes, the Donkey just kicked the wind out of you. Before you can say Mother Pelosi, you'll be rushing to fill the void.

What a long strange trip it has been.

[Generator]

38. Republicans poisoned their own well

My fav comment last night on the local news was the Republican pundit explaining why the challenger to our Democratic governor didn't win.

"It was hard to be a Republican but not act like too much of a Republican."

Sounds like poison to me. Bush affected every race, even the local ones. It felt like yes, we will vote for schools, we will vote against changinng our constitution, we will vote for good things, even if he's not perfect, not macho, and maybe even DOESN't cut our taxes, maybe living in a decent society is worth more than a tax cut. Maybe we want to not hang our heads in shame, and just be decent. That's what it felt like to me.

Bush has shamed everything he's touched. And little Ron Saxton was tied to him in some campaign literature. When being a Republican is the thing you can't be as you are trying to run on being a Republican, you got a problem.

[Stephanie]

39. A dozen pictures are worth 12,000 words >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2638631&mesg_id=2638631

[wholetruth00]

40. How about: "The universe is unfolding as it should?"

[Skidmore]

41. It's about how a vision of freedom, equality, and justice by

a handful of men centuries ago still brings us through the darkest of times as a people. That regardless of all the machinations and deceits and well financed and organized attempts to exterminate that vision of human dignity, the system that those souls created lives. The flame is still burning. And we will rise above such despots and tyranny that come our way so long as we don't take our eyes off of the light.

[conscious evolution]

42. We won a mighty battle

But the war aint over.

[LTR]

43. My sole blog entry today was pretty simple

http://ltradio.blogspot.com/2006/11/hee-haw.html

[deutsey]

45. How about "Now the real work begins"?

:shrug:

[insane_cratic_gal]

46. Write about vindication, hope and small tip of the hat to Andy

We wish he were here to see it, I know you do too.

[Marnieworld]

47. Something tells me that you'll be fine

I believe you may be just pha-klempt. ;)

You always seem to just write from the heart. You have had rage and frustration as your muse for a while now. Let's see how joy and satisfaction can inspire you.

Beyond any pep talk that I can give, I suggest you go flip through quotes of people who inspire you. I'm sure you'll find something applicable to today.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

48. Jeebus, Will.

Let your editor know the tank is dry. If anyone in this country has earned a need for decompression...well, that would be you. You were out in front of so much, for so long before some of the more well-known names. Articles, books, postings here(some of them so delightfully lubricated...;-) ) and on TO, not to mention the ration of shit you were forced to endure here.

Man, you need to go up to NH for a few weeks and breathe a bit. You've earned it.

[malaise]

49. Just write about happiness

the joy of the moment.

[HEyHEY]

50. Here's an old trick

A focus statement.

[demwing]

51. Write A Letter To Your Future Grandchildren

about what happened today.

[bigtree]

52. "Call me Bushmael"

[dogday]

53. The People voted blue because they have been seeing red..............nt

[Double T]

54. The election and specially the results have made the last 24 Hours.......

seem truly surreal; 'WE' went from having very little political power and NO voice to NOW having the the microphone front and center. Who would have ever thought???? Many of 'US' have brain lock today BUT who cares 'WE WON'!!!!!!

[demobabe]

55. Just go grab an editorial from the New York Times

...and rewrite it in your own words. That's what all the other pro journalists do. ;)

I know the comment above is a bit mean, but I've actually seen journalists do this a million times at huge daily newspapers.

[proud patriot]

56. It's almost like the sun shining through the clouds

after a long dark cold winter . Feeling the warmth
of light on ones face . squinting til your eyes adjust .

A new begining, a dawn of challenges .

Chairman John Conyers :woohoo:

[Annces]

57. There probably is a lot more that is going to happen

So whatever you write, won't be able to keep up anyway.

[grizmaster]

59. The rummy resignation firewall

here's a starting point for you.

Now that Congress has subpoena power rummy would have been spending all his time answering questions on Capitol hill.

Rummy has been thrown under the bus to slow down the coming investigations and provide rummy as a reoccurring dead end to keep the investigations from reaching bush and cheney.

[janx]

61. Simple steps:

1. Get offline

2. Read something inspirational (try a short story or poetry, but only the best)

3. Turn on the MUSIC!


Then sit down at the keyboard and let it all come tumbling out! ;-)

[cally]

63. You don't explain or quantify this. This is all about feelings

I'm all mixed up inside. I'm relieved, scared, angry, and just plain confused. I can't yet understand what will happen next. We all know the Dems will not do all that we want, but the long nightmare is over. I would love to read an essay about this confusion and a remembrance of my own tears over these past six years.

[lapislzi]

64. Can you deliver a rerun?

I seem to remember an old one of yours, "The Jewel in the Crown." It was good, but can't recall if it exactly fits.

[cmd]

65. Draw a picture

Sometimes words just won't do it.

[helderheid]

66. One big smiley face n/t

[TeddyKGB]

67. How about ripping off Stephen Colbert?

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/11/a_losers_lament.html

How are you at satire?

[matcom]

68. Start With The Text Message You Sent Me Last Night

that word is as good a place as any :D

[Kilroy003]

69. Forget the election. By weeks end, it will have been talked to death.

Instead, focus on what comes next. Perhaps a balance of power angle; will any of the rats jump ship to hold onto power? I think a case could be made to sway Norm Coleman back into the Democratic Party. He started out a good Dem in college, was a good Dem mayor of St Paul. He's really a decent statesman, and he's from a blue state. Perhaps he could be our Zell Miller in '08? The Republican National Convention will be held in the city where he was formally mayor, imagine if he set up camp n the city during the convention and drew attention away from McCain/Pawlenty...

[Bridget Burke]

74. Norm Coleman? Garrison Keillor called him "a hollow man"

Empty victory for a hollow man
How Norm Coleman sold his soul for a Senate seat.

By Garrison Keillor

Page 1November 7, 2002 | Norm Coleman won Minnesota because he was well-financed and well-packaged. Norm is a slick retail campaigner, the grabbiest and touchingest and feelingest politician in Minnesota history, a hugger and baby-kisser, and he's a genuine boomer candidate who reinvents himself at will. The guy is a Brooklyn boy who became a left-wing student radical at Hofstra University with hair down to his shoulders, organized antiwar marches, said vile things about Richard Nixon, etc. Then he came west, went to law school, changed his look, went to work in the attorney general's office in Minnesota. Was elected mayor of St. Paul as a moderate Democrat, then swung comfortably over to the Republican side. There was no dazzling light on the road to Damascus, no soul-searching: Norm switched parties as you'd change sport coats....

He was 9 points down to Wellstone when the senator's plane went down. But the tide was swinging toward the president in those last 10 days. And Norm rode the tide. Mondale took a little while to get a campaign going. And Norm finessed Wellstone's death beautifully. The Democrats stood up in raw grief and yelled and shook their fists and offended people. Norm played his violin. He sorrowed well in public, he was expertly nuanced. The mostly negative campaign he ran against Wellstone was forgotten immediately. He backpedalled in the one debate, cruised home a victor. It was a dreadful low moment for the Minnesota voters. To choose Coleman over Walter Mondale is one of those dumb low-rent mistakes, like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich. But I don't envy someone who's sold his soul. He's condemned to a life of small arrangements. There will be no passion, no joy, no heroism, for him. He is a hollow man. The next six years are not going to be kind to Norm.

http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2002/11/07/minnesota/index.html

Yeah, he'd probably change parties again if he considered it the best thing for Norm Coleman. What a prize!

[Kilroy003]

78. Not a big prize, but it would be one more seat in the senate.

We need some kind of buffer in case Joe decides to fuck us over. Also, though I love Al Franken, I'm pretty sure the good people of MN will re-elect Mr. Coleman in two years anyway. Why not try to sway him to our side? Almost all of the senators are power hungry megalomaniacs and 'hollow' men...

[GalleryGod]

70. Remember ABSENT friends like Kheph & Andy.

and my two favorites:

"BIRDMAN" and "MAINE MARY":loveya:

[Mountainman]

71. Are we ready to play nice? That's what I want to know

[stepnw1f]

72. "Writer's Block"

Just as bad as "Painter's Grey"

[geniph]

73. This is America's Restoration,

America's Redemption.

Representative democracy, the law of checks and balances, was restored to the American people yesterday.

It's a pretty big thing to take in, I'd say.

Besides, I have a hell of a hangover - a happy hangover, but still, it makes it hard to think.

Happy post-electoral day, Will.

[Lurking Dem]

75. Too big.

Think how big this is for those of us suffering from diseases which might benefit from stem cell research.

Even for those of us like me for whom it is now probably too late, I woke up to an overcast, dreary sky and felt like the sun was shining.

[npincus]

76. it hasn't REALLY sunk in yet

I'm sort of dazed and amazed... afraid to be jubilant, like it is all going to get snatched away.

[MissB]

77. Well, if it were me,

I'd start with a classic Rummy quote - "They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat" and meander into some statement on Democrats around the country.

But I really can't write, so fuck that.

[Swamp Rat]

81. Read a history book, watch a sci fi movie, go to the pub and sit in a private corner

reading something fun, but bring along writing impliments just in case. ;)

I might go to the pub this evening (hell, it's been 9 months since I've been to one), but my reading material will be academic/theoretical works related directly to my writing.

Sometimes, just changing the scenery helps me get past writer's block or whatever is hindering my research. For some reason, it sparks ideas that lay dormant deep in my mind, ideas which relate to the overall context of my work by giving new insight, or creating new axioms that bear upon the old, thus altering the paradigm or model(s).

Of course my favorite study hangout is on the levee overlooking the Mississippi River. :)

[rug]

82. Start with "It was the best of times, it was the best of times."