As a journalist, the thing that frightens me most is the blank page.
Sure, it's how virtually every piece of creativity begins, and the possibilities for how to turn that large white space into a slab of entertaining words (or pictures, or whatever) are endless, which is quite exciting. I can never seem to master writing the middle bit of a piece first and then tagging a first and last line on the end. I'm a linear person - I start at the start, finish at the finish and see where the whim takes me in between. So a blank page, with a first line just crying out to be written, is sometimes where my word juggernaut stalls.
Hence why, given that I have an entirely blank canvas with this new blog, I have decided to waffle on about blank pages - just to fill this one up a bit.
A BIT ABOUT ME: I'm a freelance sports journalist and broadcaster and this blog is just my excuse to sound off a bit on issues I have a strong view on (i.e. everything). If you're wise enough to be interested in the rest of my work, my website is at http://www.andrewraeburn.co.uk/.
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