(Originally published to my Livejournal, CreamSodaAngel)

You know, it’s amazing how many times I come up with an idea to make a somewhat interesting entry into my neglected blog. But when I get livejournal fired up, and my fingers all ready to go to make my epic posts…

… they never come out. I get hit by a loss of words, like the attack of the white paper. And the white paper wins. I can never think of the words that I want to say.

We’ve all been affected by it at some moment or another. The battle to over come the white paper affect is something that I often suffer. I will be hit by an amazing light bulb of thought and ingenuity, say perhaps an idea for the next Snow Pirate strip or a great thesis for a forthcoming essay. When it comes to get that idea down on paper (or, shall we say, in a word document), it vanishes out of the brain.

I also call this my “loose leaf paper” disease. Meaning, when I have a piece of loose leaf, I can come up with things to draw and doodle with relative ease. But when it comes to drawing my sketchbook, a blanket white sheet, or a new canvas… the ideas suddenly stop. It’s as if my subconscious receives thinks this white paper has become this daunting task, a chilling challenge that it’s not sure if it can face.

It is my goal, dear reader, to overcome this loose leaf paper disease. To adapt my creativity from the lined paper that is my university notes and apply it to more artistic avenues: my sketchbook, my blank livejournal box, a newly fired up word document.

What is the first step to this venture? Remembering to bring my sketchbook with me wherever I go, so that if I feel the temptation I can whip it out to quickly scribble in something that has caught my imagination, to jot down the newest idea I have.

The past month of so I have tried this, admittedly forgetting this more often than not. But it has come with it’s successes. No longer are as many ideas lost in the passing thought.

And so I end this article, after turning the tide and ending a long streak of inactivity by using my worst enemy as it’s own cure: it’s become the topic of this entry. White paper effect, loose leaf paper disease, lose of words syndrome… you have been defeated!

Current Mood: accomplished