Help with writers' DUH?

(I had a glance at other posts here and didn't see similar mentions to my duh problem). It is a block of sorts.

After extended periods of writing, I get to the point where I have trouble reading and forming sentences. Putting several paras together contiguously--making a sensible flow, I have difficulties. Even spelling gets difficult. Like there's a blank.

Wooo, I know how it sounds--have I checked with my GP--bits of brain falling out my ear? (I'll probably get an affirmative from a passing GP that falling bits are the next and fatal stage!). But R&R here and time out and I feel better, even if some of my initial posts are excruciatingly weird. It all helps me somehow.

All that said, the trouble shows up starkly when I change to other writing--like business letters, but I really have to push myself: reread, correct, reread.

So it's block, but not block. I can write, but my brain won't go, hence DUH. A rest I know I need and sure enough my wife has been telling me same for weeks. Anyone else got to the point where their brain's gone duh?

Yeah, chill out. Your couple of posts provided me a different focus.

Alleycat, I can think of something vaguely similar to the mech engineer example--well sort of similar Checking our bags at an airport, one item of our hand luggage was overweight and another underweight by the same amount.

Easy--the two equal themselves out.

Wrong, the checkin clerk had us on the airport floor finding something that was the right weight for the other bag.

All fixed, but next, passport control. We're dual nationals so we only had the passports of our destination. "How did we get into the country in the first place?" -- using our other passports...? Wooo, that's suspicious! So the plane was held up while checks were done. "Will the Slake family please board the plane!" Passports made the plane wait.

Engineers are real picky too. I used to be one and it bored the crap out of me. Engineers, checkins and passport control--my brain gets fried with the tedium.

Other suggestion: read novel. Right on!

Yep, C Bronco and Dario D, I was just writing elsewhere to a person and concluded same, burnout--brain drags, get out, long walks, do something else.

So I've been getting out and that's helped. But there was problem I couldn't get around with my writing--the g'damn FU@#$#G synopsis, and I'm being frugal with adjectives and smilies here.

Now that's being overcome, because I've been borrowing another writer's brilliant, lucid, inspiring and insightful brain--more adjectives !!! I've broken free from my rut.

What's more my has wife's just come in to the room and made me a cup of tea!

Hehe, and I feel good.

writerdog said:

Is that true? Leaving a project alone helps write it?

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Most definitely. I employ leprechauns and fairies to do my actual writing.

writerdog said:

Uh yeah. And Tony the tiger fid my home work for me.

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Good for Tony! I have trouble keeping tigers. My pink elephants keep scaring them away.

I'm recovering from the duh! and yep, it was mainly burnout. Thanks all for your help and advice. U 2 writerdog! Best of luck with that homework!

writerdog said:

I don't have any at the moment. It was a joke.

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Wot, no tigers in Georgia?! Dagnabit pink elephants must be spreading fast. Maybe u meant homework. Pixies are good that.

writerdog said:

Weirdo.

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Square.

writerdog said:

No. I am weird, too.

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I was joking too. As writers we have to move through all kinds of weird and even go as far as square. Good one, Writerdog!

writerdog said:

I could have said rectangle.

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Yer, so many shapes. That's a different angle, Writerdog. You had me thinking for a while there

MMcC said:

I find ANYTHING that locks me up is best left alone for a while. Writing, editing, any challenging project. If I start going in circles I step away.

You know how sometimes you are trying to remember a name and it's DRIVING YOU NUTS but won't come to you? It's always three hours later, when you've dropped it entirely, and are watching Emeril Live... suddenly you shout "Tony Spignatelli, dammit!!!"

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Yeah, step away is good advice. And I've got a dictaphone because that "Tony Spig.." happens to me just as I'm falling asleep, so I'm whispering away while my wife's saying: "what? what?" Me: "shhh, shhh."

writerdog said:

Must put a damper on your sex life. lol.

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Yo, but I didn't say where I was in bed with the dictaphone.