Hi, everyone...

I've decided to just give up on ever becoming a mortician, for more reasons than one... and decided to pursue a career as a CPA. So, I took a giant leap & enrolled in the local community college for the fall semester w/the so-so support of my husband.

Anyway, I decided I'd knock out English 101 & managed to get an online course, which is cool. What is not cool is that it looks like it will be mostly composition. In other words, writing.

I normally enjoy, or used to enjoy, writing. When I was a teenager & an alcoholic, my depression seemed to fuel my creativity. It gave me something to be angsty about and words flowed like water from my pen. Now... I just don't think I have that many words in me. I can't come up w/an original, creative thought to save my life. The only thing I've written in years (other than the odd & far-between letters to my two remaining pen-pals) is a how-to guide for when I have to train a relief night auditor. Which isn't very creative, but technical. And I do keep a journal, but most of my entries over the past year have been a sentence or two so my account won't lapse from inactivity.

Anyone got any tips for refueling the creative fire?