How to write :: getting over the fear of the blank page

Fear of the blank page, or writers block, or blank page anxiety, whatever you want to call it, is something I don’t suffer from too often.  And no, it’s not because I’m super confident and have wonderful self-belief, (ha! If only) it’s because years ago, I was a part of a writing boot camp.

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There were about twenty of us in that boot camp and the rules were simple: you had to submit a short story to the group every week. You had to critique every story submitted. If you didn’t play by the rul...