There are times when you can sit in front of a blank page for hours, reading and rereading the prompt, hoping to be stricken by a thought good enough to be immortalized on a page. I find that these are the times when it is most necessary to let the nonsense flow from brain to hand to page, if only to get the spring of ideas flowing. I usually allot the first page or two to gibberish, so that by the time I arrive upon the third page, I am producing things worth keeping.


"There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know 'til he takes up the pen and writes"
- William Makepeace Thackeray