# The Void

By [Creative Footholds](https://paragraph.com/@creative-footholds) · 2022-04-20

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You know you have an incredible idea. You can feel it within you, flickering into focus when you day dream, or when you drift off to sleep. But when you sit down to write it, you’re paralyzed. You stare into the void of the blank screen.

You think you’re alone, but you’re not. Almost every professional writer shares this phenomenon. According to Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Dave Barry:

> _I believe “writer’s block” is the normal state of writing; that is, you rarely have anything just flow easily from your brain to the keyboard. And if it does, it’s usually pretty bad. Good writing is almost always hard, and what I think sometimes happens is that writers forget how hard it is, or don’t want to do the work anymore, and they call this “writer’s block.”_

How do we combat this? Creative footholds. Think of a rock climber standing at the base of a granite wall. It looks impossible. But the key is to find the first foothold –– an entryway into the climb.

![Image courtesy of iStockPhoto](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6cc085fb6abc1fe2fe089afd2d2a75ca6d8a5f791deceafaf096473d88acf7e9.jpg)

Image courtesy of iStockPhoto

That’s how you’ll manifest your great idea –– not all at once, fully formed from the blank void. But one lift at a time, starting with a single foothold.

What can a foothold be? It can be anything –– an image, a song, a poem. Or, it can be something native to the Web 3 world –– an NFT. Imagine, for instance, writing an opening chapter inspired by the flower below.

ethereum://0xabEFBc9fD2F806065b4f3C237d4b59D9A97Bcac7/500

Now you’re on your way. Congrats!

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*Originally published on [Creative Footholds](https://paragraph.com/@creative-footholds/the-void)*