Truly, whitespace makes a most intimidating opponent in ye old staring contest. And its snide companion, the Cursor, blinking mockingly:
Blink… blink…
The ancient curse: Writer's Block. I wonder how much trouble the first writers had, staring at a rock wall, or whatever they first wrote on. I wonder how much time occured between writing as an idea and the first visual symbolic form of linguistic meaning. Maybe writing has always been around. Maybe humanity just had one massive case of writer's block. Maybe they used oral histories simply to pass ideas back and forth until, finally satisfied, they could commit these ideas to… their chosen medium. After all, erasers would be mighty hard to come by.
And the cursor, blinking impatiently… incessantly, it is an onerous companion, inflicting its kind of Chinese water torture which wrests words from me eventually. Even now, it mocks, "Is that it?" The human male has a certain aversion to those words when it comes to his… talents, eh?
Curse? Cursor? It's no coincidence.
OK, so it probably is, but the whitespace was getting to me.
Then again…
Blink…
:: Related Extras ::
- Methods of Interrogation – w/ stick figures. (Language warning)
- Purdue's OWL - Writing Lab
- eHow.com – on Writer's Block
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