Writing something new: the terror of beginning

“A beginning is only the start of a journey to another beginning.” (Photo credit: katerha)

It doesn’t matter whether this is the first thing you’ve ever written or your thirty first. You’ve got a new idea. You’re completely excited about it. You sit down to write it and… ugh.

Because that cursor just blinks forever at you and that blank page just stays soaccusinglyblank. Even if you manage to bang out a few sentences, they look so sad and pathetic. You start to not only doubt your story idea bu...