The other thing I discovered: If I had a topic to begin with, it was easier to get started.
— Natalie Goldberg, Long Quiet Highway
Sometimes with writing, getting started is the hardest part. You feel this energy inside you, this impulse to write, to spill words and sentences and paragraphs onto a page. Electric with excitement for the brilliance in your mind, for the genius you will share, you sit down to write.
And… nothing.
You stare at your blank screen. Your white sheet of paper. You think, “What was that idea I had in the shower? The beginning I thought of as I fell asleep last night?” You stand up and pace. You think. You sit down again.
And? Nothing.
Most writers know this feeling. I certainly did. Then I remembered my prompt box.
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