You Are Staring at a Blank Page

"Ha, ha, ha!" the blank page laughs. "What have you got, chicken??!!!"

Do not be intimidated by the blank page, though, for you have Ideas. And everyone knows how dangerous those can be. You are powerful, persuasive, armed with a pen—okay, a keyboard. While many believe you are unresponsive, ungrateful, and worst of all…undressed, and it’s past noon on a Sunday, thoughts swirl in your head. Little do they know that these thoughts hold massive influence, that they are unrelenting vortices of energy behind your bedroom door, and you are going to change the world with your words, because they hold…The Truth.

The Truth about that girl who accidentally-on-purpose bumped into you yesterday in Hallway A, or how half your sophomore class deserves little mustaches drawn on their yearbook pictures. Mwa-ha-ha-ha…

But then, The Voice of When You Were in Kindergarten and Fell Down in Front of a Whole Class of Second Graders as They Laughed at You creeps in. This voice loves to torture you, make you feel like you cannot write. But you know The Truth—that you can write. Because you are. Because you think. Because you are an Author, and nobody has to validate this for you. You’ve always been one, ever since you started writing in that diary with a real lock and key, even before you signed up for this writing contest on HarperTeenFanLit.com.

So send The Voice into Time-Out, and show the Blank Page who’s in charge.

You are.

So do it.

Get writing.

Gaby Triana
Author of Cubanita