A lull, a slough, a doldrum

I confess, I have hit a lull, a slough, a doldrum (if you can have a singular) My writing seems to have ground to a snail’s pace, so once again I’m resorting – as I have in previous situations, to find a list of random words and try to produce something which includes one or several of them. I did this recently with my story of Ada which I shared here, however although I may report on my progress, I won’t be sharing any new stories here as I want to enter some writing competitions. Most such things include a rule that work submitted should not have been previously published and humble though my blog is, it counts, in the eyes of the comps, as publishing.

There’s a site which will randomly generate words, and I asked for thirty items. I know if I want a challenge I shouldn’t quibble over what it is, but my twenty were not exactly inspiring or challenging:

1. tree, grubby, secret, mint, chalk, mass, joke, battle, wistful, coal
2. unarmed, proud, permit, quince, blot, house, responsible, pick, joyous, earthy
3. buzz, back, religion, outrageous, sock, waggish, trucks, detailed, sincere, stick

My other method of finding suggestions for writing is the word puzzle, Octordle. I’ve just completed one (yes i should be writing not puzzling, but that is part of the problem!) – and these are the answers – smite, tulip, stump, madly, covet, realm, twixt and plait. Would they be more interesting to include in a story, not necessarily in that order, but are they more inspiring? I think so! I will let you know