Stupid brain! Stop stealing my words!

[ThisAdamGuy]

I don't think anything can ruin the flow of a good writing session like when you have a sentence perfectly planned out in your head, and then just as you're typing it, your brain decides to yoink one of the words away. You stop. You know exactly what you want to say, but for some reason the word you need just isn't there. You can think of other words that mean the same thing, but they don't sound quite right. You need that word, but no matter how hard you think, your brain refuses to let that word out of whatever dark and moldy cage it's locked it away in. Eventually you give up and use one of those dirty, inferior words. Maybe once you get back into your groove, you'll be able to remember what that word [yoink!]. Turns out your brain is a kleptomaniac. Now that it's stolen one word from you, it's going to steal as many more as it possibly can, until your manuscript looks like a slice of swiss cheese with all the holes you're having to leave in it because THE STUPID FREAKING WORDS AREN'T WORDING RIGHT AND NOW YOU'RE IN A BAD MOOD BECAUSE OF THOSE DUMB, BAD, STUPID, [yoink!] WORDS!

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I've had this happen more in conversations than in writings, but have had it happen there too. Think it's kind of a stress-induced short-term aphasia.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

I used to have a [yoink] that would [yoink] me whenever [yoink] [yoink]. I would [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] and [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] in the [yoink] [yoink] until [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] your mother [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] right in the [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] [yoink] Switzerland.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Jinkies!

 

[BreadIsACuisine]

[yoink] the brains.