What happens when one faces the “blank page”? Specifically, what do you do when you are faced with that “blank screen” when you just don’t know what to do next?
At well over 600 daily posts on this site since I started that discipline, most days I love to write, some days I struggle to come up with something to write.
As Neil Gaiman put it:
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
Today I woke up feeling like the blank screen would win.
I then realised that I’ve been on vacation for the last ten days and still wrote, that today I unexpectedly have one of my sons visiting me here in London for the first time in nearly a year.
So, sometimes it is good to recognise that life wins. To give myself permission to allow my focus to not stay on the blank page of the daily blog commitment, but instead to simply choose to share my presence wholly with him today.
I’ll see you all tomorrow.