In Twyla Tharp’s 2003 book The Creative Habit, she boiled her whole artistic self down to this:
The blank space can be humbling. But I’ve faced it my whole professional life. It’s my job. It’s also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.
Get started. It’s time to make something where now there is nothing.

Simple, and profound. The blank page can be intimidating, but it can also be inviting. So putting down marks — your marks — on that page can be a wondrous and scary.
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