Just as any artist, writer, poet, creative, business owner knows, the blank beginning is just as hard if not harder than a starting idea.
Often when I begin a project I’ll scrap something from a previous work or skip the first page of a new notebook just to get over that need-based feeling of perfect so that I can just start. If I come back to make something better so be it, if I never come back, al-so be it. Starting with something rough and getting my thoughts out, whether through paint or sorting out code-blocks by deleting what’s no longer needed to build out what should work next, has helped.
Block out the shapes to get the vision and structure in place, and details follow afterwards.
The irony of all this is - there’s really no core reason to do that for a blog. It’s my space. It’s -for- me. And yet, I found it more useful to throw something up there from years ago just to show myself I can put words on a page. It’s not something new that I’m proving to myself, and even if I ramble on this blog post since I haven’t written out for fun in awhile, it’s still okay.
There’s been plenty of studies on this too. Some call it the ‘Blank Page Syndrome’ and Adam Grant has highlighted it extensively on his podcast episode ‘Breaking up with Perfectionism’. I could go into it, write a detailed post, full exposition on the nitty gritty. I think for now though, this was a good starting exercise and you’ll see more to come.
My goal with this is to get myself thinking clearer in the written form - alongside sharing again to the world the one thing that makes me unique and just like the rest of you - my inner voice, thoughts, and ideas.
For now, stay tuned for more - hopefully with fewer rambles and more interesting topics ;)