Conversations with Bob Watson (my creative unconscious)

DANI: Bob. I know you’re in there. I know you’re mad at me. I’ve been busy out here. I’ll be here in just a minute and we can play. Ok? Bob? BOB?!

BOB: …

DANI: Oh! There you are. You startled me a bit. 

DANI: I see that you’ve been, um. Decorating. Interesting. 

BOB: Well, when you never call or write or visit, I have to have some kind of outlet, don’t I? So I’ve started doing a little embellishment here and there.

DANI: My cerebral cortex has been feeling a little itchy lately.

BOB: Yes, that’s probably the plush anatomical zombie hearts spattered with mud that I left in there last week. They tend to get a little rank. 

DANI: Bob.

BOB: I know what you’re thinking.

DANI: Well, I hope so.

BOB: [nodding]

DANI: Bob. You can’t just go around embellishing the inside of my brain. That’s just—

BOB: MAKING YOU CRAZY! I know! But where else am I supposed to put all this stuff if you don’t come to let some of it out onto the page once in a while?

DANI: …

DANI: Bob.

BOB: Yes, Dani?

DANI: I’m sorry, Bob.

BOB: Me too, dear. Shall we do a little writing?

DANI: Yes, I think that would be a very good idea. 

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Many thanks to Sarah for posting a link to Lisa R. Cohen’s exercises for Writer’s Block over on Twitter a few weeks ago.