The Snowflake Chronicles

Meditating On a Blank Page

18 Asma 163 B.E. – September 6, 2006 A.D.

Everybody gets writer’s block or blog block, depending on what type of writing the person is doing at the time. I’m not going to call it a block any more, instead I’ve decided to call it Meditating upon a Blank Page, because that’s what I’m really doing. I’m sitting look at clean word processor page, a page waiting to become a document.

I haven’t had a problem with writer’s block lately, I’ve written quite a lot actually. I’ve been doing a lot of reviews for the last few days. I’ve written a submission for the Grandparents’ Day Contest. However, I do find myself saying: I don’t know what to write! or I don’t know how to approach this! If I push myself, then I get beyond those ideas and do write. So I sit and meditate on a blank page until I start to write.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your own way. The worst walls are the ones you put there--you build your-self. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. - Ursula K. LeGuin