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I don’t know if everyone suffers from this, but it’s been four days since I got back from my summer holiday, and I just can’t get back into the swing of work and, more importantly, blogging.

The first problem comes on my return to work. I turn on the PC, enter my user name, and tab to the password box, and then stop. What is my password? My mind is a blank, and I have to resort to looking it up in a secure area of the server (yes, I’ve had this problem before!)

I was talking to someone about this a few weeks ago, and he called it muscle memory. With very repetitive tasks, you don’t need to think about how you do them - you just do them. Obviously, the muscles don’t have a memory, it’s the motor function area of the brain that remembers, together with your subconscious. If you drive a car with a manual gearbox, do you have to think where the gears are? No. If a dog runs out in front of you as you’re driving along, do you need to think about braking? Of course not, your foot goes to the pedal without you thinking. If you had to think about it (or even worse, if I had to think about it), the dog would be under your wheels.

So much of my life seems to have changed since I spent three weeks in Europe. I don’t know if it’s the change of scenery (our holiday destination was far more beautiful than our home town), change of lifestyle (no alarm clock makes a big difference), or just a change in time zone (I know, it’s only 1 hour, but you never know).

I don’t watch the same programs on TV any more. The daily and weekly programs which were the centrepiece of my social time hold no interest for me. I can’t get back into action on the online forum I held to moderate. I read posts, but rarely comment or take positive action. Blogging? Who has time for that?

Well, obviously I do. I’ve just written this blog post, and I’m back into the swing!

So, writers’ block? It doesn’t (or shouldn’t) exist. Got nothing to write about? Write about writers’ block.