Preparing my rain dance!

Oh, I got nothing today. The proverbial “can” as in having a blog post prepared and “in the can and ready to go at a moment’s notice” is empty. The in-the-moment water spout is dry too, in fact it’s as dry as the Mojave Desert.

Oh, it’s not for the lack of trying. I sit down at my desk and get myself ready to write. I shake my head to shake off the rust. I turn on the faucet and nothing comes out. I shake my head again, that can’t be right, there’s got to be something. I hit the make-believe sink, oh, here comes something and out comes one tiny droplet of water. I hit it again and there’s a gurgle, but nothing else.

This is not good. I think to myself, I’m a professional writer, I will not let a little dry spell beat me. I yell at the top of my lungs, “Come out, come out, wherever you are” and in the process scare Nittany, our poor little dog, who was sleeping soundly in the next room. Nope, there’s still nothing.

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Never giving up

I’ll fix this I think to myself. I start typing: See Spot run, see Spot play, see Spot jump over the fence. I find that sometimes writing silly sentences, starts the juices flowing. Oh, sometimes, but not today.

I’ve got nothing.

I grimace in disgust. The well is dry today, but I promise that there will be something here tomorrow. I’ve been running lately and am behind on posts. So, check back tomorrow. I’ll be back. Hopefully fresher and ready to go.

Of course, even in this dry spell, I think of a funny story. When I worked on a farm two summers as a kid, the farmer used to joke that if it got any drier he was going to do his rain dance. Now he never really explained what his rain dance might look like and he wasn’t exactly the most coordinated fellow — his pants were usually covered in dirt and grass stains, if that tells you anything — but I always wondered what the rain dance would look like.

I guess that means I need to try out my own little writing rain dance? You’ve been warned, you might want to close your eyes. It could get pretty ugly around here! Think Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Elaine Benes doing her unconventional dance on Seinfeld. Yikes! It really is a dry spell.

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