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The Blank Page

Every Writer's Nightmare

By Matt MartinPublished 6 years ago Updated 8 months ago 1 min read
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It all starts with the blank page.

Every writer knows how

haunting

the blank page is.

The white,

blank,

empty paper.

It thirsts for your creativity,

it's hungry for your ideas,

it needs your talent

to be written on it.

The greatest art

has been written from

the blank page.

Orwell, Shakespeare, King, Hemingway...

They all started with nothing but a pencil

and the blank page.

You stare at the page,

wondering what masterpiece you will create on

the blank page.

It haunts you.

You don't know what to do.

You know in the literal sense,

you have to write something.

But write what?

What should you write?

What should you write about?

What do you want to discuss,

challenge,

or propose

with your writing?

The page is still empty.

You start to feel empty with it.

Maybe...

Maybe you have no more ideas.

Maybe you have no more new opinions.

Maybe you have nothing left.

You walk away.

You leave the page.

Perhaps it's over.

Until,

you're standing in the shower,

away from it all,

and an idea strikes you,

strikes you like a thousand-ton basket full of light bulbs

that you cannot wait to turn on.

You run out,

run to the page,

the blank, white, empty page,

and fill it with your masterpiece.

And it all started

with just you,

the pencil,

and the blank page.

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About the Creator

Matt Martin

Canadian Playwright, Poet, and Performer.

Let's write our own happy ending.

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