It's easy to feel the way Chesney describes when writing sometimes - that you're in a rut, writing about the same things over and over again. For me personally, it's especially apt to happen when writing poetry, as it's still the genre I'm least comfortable with writing and there are subjects I'm not sure I could do justice in poetic form.
One thing I like to try when I feel a rut coming on is to take a piece and "translate" it from one genre to another. Writing a short story or essay idea as a poem is an interesting experience. I think taking fiction or nonfiction into the poetic form sensitizes you to considerations of word choice and significance. Dead, ineffective verbiage that might slip under your radar when it's written in paragraphs as prose can become glaring when you write it as lines of poetry instead. Poetry can also encourage you to be succinct, and leave out passages that aren't necessary to tell the story/make your point/what-have-you.
That said, writing about the same thing for a while doesn't always signify a rut. It might just be a subject that's especially fertile for you creatively. If you're still finding new things to say about it and not repeating yourself, there's really no need to stress out about changing topics.
Hope this is semi-helpfullish. I'm going to go shave, see everybody at workshop.
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