Well, dearly beloved, it's been a while, hasn't it? What with family visits and deadlines and, you know, not having anything worthwhile to muse about...
But here's a writer's topic if ever there was one: writer's block. I don't suffer this myself, perhaps because I rarely stray into the realms of High Art, but I do find myself - as this morning - struck down with Blank Page Panic.
It's a hard one to explain. Partly it's down to the usual writer's problem of wanting to do anything - anything - rather than actually write, but there is a definite drawing in of breath before you hit the first key. Even if you know where you're headed with the piece, even if you had the first five paragraphs all blocked out in your head ages ago...when it comes to actually putting things down on paper, confidence ebbs.
Do you get this? I'd love to know how you feel when confronted with a blank page? Worse still, do you get writer's block - or do you even believe in it?
I'll leave you to mull the issue over; I've got to write this script.
Well, as soon as I've finished this cup of coffee...
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