The Blank Page

Why is the blank page so intimidating? When I don’t have an idea of what I want to write? It just is. It’s like I feel I don’t have any ideas, or any good ideas. That what I’ve written, all that I’ve written so far is worthless and why bother.

I’m sure all writers feel like this at one time or another. I know they do. It’s been written about profusely. So, since I don’t have a clue about what to write, I’ll write about that. About how I don’t know what to write and am faced with a blank page and it’s intimidating, to say the least.

Right now, I’m writing gibberish and I doubt if I’ll get one decent thought out of a 20-minute, self-imposed prompt that I’m in the middle of. Then, I’ll just want to throw it in the garbage, which is ok. But, I might not, probably won’t do that as I treat the space it’s taking up as so precious.

It’s like so many photographs that I have stored in my iPhone, many of them duplicates, or nearly so, and they are also taking up space. I try and get rid of the least interesting ones right away, but there is such a backlog, and now it will be nearly impossible to sort them, as there are so many of them.

So, here I am, on a beautiful early Fall day, not quite officially Fall yet, and it is supposed to be a sunny day, but because of El Nino, or La Nina, it is hazy. It is the wild fires’ effect out of the west that has now travelled across the entire country to create a haze from the fires’ smoke.

It’s quite unbelievable, and sad as it’s a reminder that we’re all affected by these fires even though, for me they’re occurring 3,000 miles away.

Last night, we drove home after having had a nice lunch with an elderly couple, did some shopping and stopped at one of our favorite breweries for a pint and shared nachos. Looking out the window, I saw the red sun, which was a reddish-orange color in a hazy blue-grey sky. It was so beautiful. Then we began to wonder, my husband and I, if it was being affected by the fires out west.

So, later that evening, there it was in the news: confirmation, that indeed, we will be getting El Nino or La Nina type haziness due to the smoke being carried above the clouds along the jet stream into our atmosphere, here in Michigan and beyond-clear over to the east coast. Unbelievable.

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