Writing Blocks

I've been struggling to come up with new blog posts that aren't focused on some trivial political event du jour, and it's been difficult. So why not write about this difficulty itself? I'll begin by identifying its cause.

My brain isn't hard-wired to settle on expressive issues (i.e. what I'm 'feeling'); it seeks out information and attempts to synthesize it. The majority of the time my thoughts take me to topical issues or events, then I add some insight and opinion, and poof, a blog post. For instance, when I listen to someone speak during a conversation, I focus on the words that come out of the person's mouth in an attempt to understand the underlying logic of their statements and what if anything I might be able to add to what's been said. Ultimately I seek to understand it; I don't think about what the person's wearing, what expressions on their face might be betraying some hidden emotion, or what actor or actress their voice reminds me of.

But I'd like to be able to encorporate such aesthetic elements into my writing. Atypical, creative topics that engage my imagination are more interesting to me to read, frankly, and thus present a very big draw to write about.

But how to start such an essay? My training has been utterly unable to speak to my desire to write in this fashion. In consonance with my unwavering belief in the value of commodified higher education, I've enrolled in a "Creative Writing Intensive" course at a local State University. Three weeks of poety, short stories, and speaking about writing/revising them should help open my brain up to this heretofore untapped arena of writing.

My hope is that I'm able to harness my abilities to write clearly, concisely, and with logical progression, and apply these skills towards writing about more creative, imaginative topics, which interest me far more than the never-ending, farsical Washingtonian story of: Politician said X, did Y, the media believes it was for Z reasons, and A, B, C, and potentially that old horney devil D, will result.