Old Wine in a New Bottle!
Sometimes for days and weeks and even months on end, creativity just doesn't flow as it should. So, I re-visit old articles I've written in the past to get inspired and motivate myself to write. Somehow, that whole process usually backfires and I mull over how terribly I've written an article or how I should have used a different word or phrase. But I thrive on this self-flogging because in the end, it does nudge me to write...hoping to do a somewhat better job! And then there's today, like yesterday and the day before, where my mind just draws a blank and I tell myself that maybe I should no longer attempt to write at all. In the midst of such internal trauma and drama, I get a message from a friend out of the blue, asking if I've written anything lately and that just pushes me into more despondency, as if that were even possible! So, I hit upon a brilliant idea, why not publish articles that were already published elsewhere. I wrote those myself and...