I completely empathize. To me, that moment before the writing starts, when the blank page sits there, cursor blinking, is a meditation.

Writing is one of the simplest and most powerful ways to create something from nothing. When the words come easily, flowing out like a river of metaphor, we can build worlds in paragraphs.

It’s that first moment though — the discipline to sit and put finger to keyboard, the intimidation of the white space, the quiet cacophony of ideas all struggling to get onto the page.

It’s about training your muse — of insisting they show up when you need them. And it’s about just starting to write — it doesn’t matter if the writing is terrible, that’s what revisions and edits are for. Form the habit —a thousand words a day, every day, no excuses.

Write because your love, write because you care, write because you want to shout. But, above all, just write.