Tabula Rasa

Daisy Peasblossom on Mar 10, 2010

Tags: Blank Page, getting ideas, starting writing, tabula rasa

The hardest part about writing is getting started.

The white page sits before me;
it’s blank page a challenge
A tongue stuck out,
Hands flapping at the ears,
Nose thumbing,
Thumb biting
Nanny, Nanny BOO BOO! taunt:

“Stupid writer,
   Head stuffed with fluff
No more brain
   Than Edward Bear;
You can’t fill this blankness.
   Even if you did
   All you are going to make
   Is kindergarten scratches!”

I grin.
    For now,
       I know just what to write.
    I pick up my pencil,
              And make the first mark.

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Karen Gross on Mar 10, 2010
Good one. Except that now it needs to be Computerus Screenia Rasa – or something like that.

Like the writer who put a clean white page into his typewriter (old joke) and typed the word “The”. He stared at the page off and on all day. Then he typed “hell with it!” and went to bed.
Jimmy Shilaho on Mar 11, 2010
Another good piece, keep it up.
Christine Ramsay on Mar 11, 2010
You put over so well the way many of us feel when trying to look for inspiration. A great piece.

Christine
diamondpoet on Mar 11, 2010
That\\\’s looking at writing with a whole new perspective, well done.
giftarist on Mar 11, 2010
Great write. I experienced this too lately.
ken bultman on Mar 11, 2010
Samuel Clemens threw a knotted rope over the side of a sternwheeler and came up with a 12-foot depth. Someone shouted out, “mark twain.” Sam wrote tha t down. Other stuff, too. Write on.
PR Mace on Mar 22, 2010
Know how you feel, sometimes a story or article will come from the strangest places. I have a bad head cold today and I have been thinking about a head cold poem. I think I will just stop and go take another nap. I hate a cold.

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