Of all the words that can be randomly generated, I am surprised that a word has not yet been conceived for the yearning to write ideas but the inability the think them. This has been happening to me increasingly more often as of late and it is exceedingly frustrating. Some might call this phenomenon writer's block, but it's more than that. It's this overwhelming... stuckness. Nothing I write sounds... right. Generally, my syntax is experiencing some kind of unpleasant spasm that leaves me spewing the most surface level vocabulary and awkwardly basic sentence structures.
I must have randomly generated about 30 word today before I gave up, frustrated, and decided to create my own word: syntlapse. It is a lapse of effective and artful syntax. Appropriately, when pronounced, the tongue gets a little tripped up in the "ntl" section, causing the word to come out in a sketchy, unsure auditory area somewhere between two and three syllables. In essence, it is clumsy. It makes you feel like an idiot to say. It embodies that feeling behind its definition.
I have created a beautiful creature here- this syntlapse of mine. For years to come- okay, my writing is increasing exponentially in its... ugh. I'll just... eh. I- stop. I'll just stop.
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