Possibility
Posted on | April 25, 2010 | 2 Comments
A blank piece of paper (or a curser blinking on a blank screen) can be the most wonderful of things. It can fill you with wonder or dread. I chose wonder. The possibilities are endless. Shall I create a lush landscape and people it with gnomes? Shall it be a bleak forest full of gnarled, sickly trees covered in stringy moss or a gleaming city with tall buildings, fast automobiles and faster people hurrying toward their dreams?
I conjure, more powerfully than any wizard or mage, dark realms and bright, a farm with simple people tending strange beasts, a ramshackle hut filled with the smell of wood smoke and roasting meat, a dark spaceship hurtling toward the horizon of imagination.
I write because of the power it gives me to create whole worlds and explore others, to breath life, godlike, into new beings. I write because of the gift of being able to bring other people along on my journey.
And in creating, I am created. To paraphrase Descartes, I write, therefore I am. Writing allows me to examine my psyche, to justify my existence, to explore my doubts and triumphs.
I stare at the blank piece of paper (or the curser blinking on the blank screen) and I am spellbound with awe at the possibilities.
~Geoff Hoff
Co-author of the how-to guide On Writing a Short Story.
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April 25th, 2010 @ 1:05 pm
I read your tweet re #blog30 and clicked to check out your blog. I like your positive approach to facing the blank page (or screen). Must confess to not always remembering that. Am also a big fan of Artist’s Way!
April 25th, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
Thanks, Janet. Artist’s Way gave me a huge attitude adjustment about creativity and life.