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Shayan Murphy
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A Fear of the Blank Page
I’ve been writing for more than 25 years ✍️ and I’ve written a lot.
But every time I sit down to start a new chapter, I feel an irrational fear 😖
What if I can’t write it as well as the previous one?
What if I can’t put the idea into words in a way that really hits — and instead it comes out flat and empty?
Every time, I manage to push through 💪
That’s what fear of the blank page looks like for me.
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But every time I sit down to start a new chapter, I feel an irrational fear 😖
What if I can’t write it as well as the previous one?
What if I can’t put the idea into words in a way that really hits — and instead it comes out flat and empty?
Every time, I manage to push through 💪
That’s what fear of the blank page looks like for me.
What Read more of this blog post »
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