You know how sometimes you’ve got a great idea, something you really want to write about, something with some oomph? It clicks and you think ahhh, THAT’S it.

And then you open the laptop.

There’s writing, but weird writing. Stilted. A lot of stopping and starting and stopping again. There’s some closing the laptop and walking away while muttering. Then there’s blankly staring at the screen with a BUT HOW DO I FIX IT moment.

There are some attempts at editing but in the end you bail out when there’s simply no saving a post that’s become garbled word salad. It lands in drafts because at one point it seemed like a brilliant idea and sometimes those ideas really are brilliant before they’re butchered by clumsy writers. Maybe next week it will be brilliant again. Maybe next week my brain won’t crash out as I try to shape the idea into a coherent piece.

But tonight? Tonight you get the restart.

C’est la vie.