The blank page contains the potential for all stories ever and never written. It is up to the author to use time-honored tools like discipline, critical thought, and unflinching scrutiny to bring out another glorious tale from that deceptively chaotic blankness.
The great white expanse of implied perfection is the bane of every artist. We must be brave and make a mark.
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Indeed! There are lessons in finishing something and moving on to the next.
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If only I could record the experience of imagination and transmit directly to the brains of others. But I cannot. I must remember what I imagined, sort out what I was thinking, then gather and arrange a common, imprecise, limited code on a medium I can pass on, so another can decode, decipher, translate with their own experiences to have a chance to interpret something like what I mean. It is still a thrill.
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In a few decades, stories may all just be transmitted through machine-assisted telepathy, haha!
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I like that you use the phrase “chaotic blankness”. That is precisely it — it is the struggle to create a limited creation out of a virtually limitless sea of ‘nothing’, or ’emptiness’.
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That’s why it’s fun in the beginning, and then a grind, haha! The novelty must be shaped so that others understand it.
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You reminded me of the Natasha Bedingfield song, “Unwritten.”
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Hope that’s a good thing, haha!
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Here’s the song with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jloQ6xsx3bE
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Sounds very “glittery-y” haha!
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