Patience

So there you sit with a white screen in front of you and the cursor blinking as though it were teasing you.  You want to write something but don’t have a complete thought.  Still the cursor blinks and blinks.  You don’t realize how long it has been until the screensaver comes on.  At last you have an idea for your blog.  This blog is about patience as a writer.  It is much different than patience in other things.  In writing you know the words you need are within yourself.  You just need some stimuli to bring them out.  It’s a lot like water breaking on a pregnant woman.  There’s all that pressure built up and them bam, it hits you all at once.  As a writer you try to type out the thoughts before you lose them.  Everything is a blur.  When the thought is finished you collapse in an exhausted state but are proud of yourself.  Once you read over and correct your mistakes the juices are flowing and you keep on writing.  The ideas flow like a river through your brain.  Once you are emotionally spent and you stop typing you find you have written page after page of quality content.  Just remember to avoid the trap of writing until you have nothing else to write.  That will leave you in the same predicament you had at the start.  Always, always, always leave yourself something to write at the end of your session.  That way you have something to start with next time and you can go from there.  As a writer you need patience.  All the answers are in your head.  You just have to wait for them to come out.