Bullied by the Blank Page

I've read that even the greatest artists had felt intimidated by a big blank canvas at some point in their creative lives. I am no artist and have felt intimidated by every blank page. I've tried using small sketch books so that big blank page wouldn't be as scary. That only helped a tiny bit so the staring at the blank pages continued. I am doing a lot of work digitally and that helped because erasing is not so messy and I don't feel like I am wasting a lot of paper. But that blank new file/screen still manages to intimidate.
I was cleaning out some old shelves over the holidays. It's amazing how much stuff has been sitting around. I threw away a couple garbage bags full and donated another couple of bags. Even after all that there were still quite a bit I kept. Among the things I kept was small stack of old note books. They were half used or barely used lined note books from the kids. I wasn't sure about giving them away, so I thought I will keep them and see if it will help get over that intimidating feeling since they are old and lined. So if I messed up, who cares.
Another thing that's been sitting around are ball point pens because at one point that's what my daughter liked to draw with. I hated them even for writing. I preferred gel pen or those Pilot G2 pens. Even though I hated them I can't throw them away. So I started using it in the lined notebook.
Not much to show for but at least I am doing something with them.

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