I was attempting to teach my kids how to write today and I got lost too.  We were writing the blues, the really good stuff before the green and the yellow and the red and I couldn't for the life of me come up with a blue.  A jazzed up sentence that is just there to shine.

I used to do this all the time.  I used to have blues floating around in my head, on the tip of my writing tongue, it would keep me up at night- all of those blues zinging around.

He told me not to worry with the blues yet.  Stick to the greens, the yellows, the reds.  Be happy with them.  Blues will come.

But what if they don't?