Measures of My Mental Mediocrity

There are times when writing is therapy.  Unfortunately, I have not had therapy for quite some time.  Writing, what little I do, has become an unwelcome chore.  It has become a means by which I can more clearly see my lack of creativity.  Writing has become a short catalog of failed ideas and, even more so, the inability to think. It has become a measure of my mental mediocrity.

I have threatened to stop trying.  I have threatened to keep after it.  I have threatened to hide my writing.  I have threatened to make it more public.  They've all been idle threats. And they will remain so, I am afraid.

That having been said, I have been trying to generate a touch of creativity by coining some alliterative collective nouns.  Here is the paltry list I have developed so far:

Singular	Collective	Sample
Monkey	masturbation	A masturbation of monkeys
Dancer	dervishium	A dervishium of dancers
Republicans	repulse	A repulse of Republicans
Tennis player	tantrum	A tantrum of tennis players
Linguist	laconism	A laconism of linguists