Blank page
I intended writing about something today.
It was a good topic that was ripe for a bit of a skit. Maybe I should have written something down at the time?
Because I fired up the old Interweb engine and sat there looking at a blank screen and my mind went completely blank. I stared at the blank page and the blank page stared back at me. Both of us waited for inspiration but whatever brilliant idea I had is long gone.
I hate blank pages. They have an air of expectancy about them and there is an unwritten challenge that whatever I fill them with had better be good. As I stare at the blankness my brain goes into overdrive, whirling around all the topics and things that I have been thinking about for the last day.
That just gives me a headache.
And then the blank page starts to smirk at me. "You have forgotten again? You dumb fuck" it mutters at me. I feel like smashing it but that's a tad drastic. I could just switch it off but I know that there in the blackness behind the on/off switch it would still be sneering. "Loser!" it whispers. "Fuck you" I whisper back and the dog gives me a funny look.
There is only one retaliation. It drives the screen mad.
I fill it full of rubbish – words plucked almost at random until the screen is full of shite.
"Fuck you" I whisper again as I click the Publish button.
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Great minds think alike.
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blabbermouth…
That was after a few beers btw
I never would have guessed!
I've had chronic "blankpageitis" for a good long while now with no end in sight.
And it's loser dammit! Not looser!
Bugger! As usual you are right. You have no idea how hard it was to fix it on a bloody mobile screen. :/
Heh, I can guess though. Anything to make your day brighter, sir.