Struggling with the Blank Page

Writing When You Can’t Write

Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash

I am going to write today, I think, as I wake up in the morning, fresh out of a vivid dream in which a man whom I seemed to know but had never seen in my life was stroking my hair as I lay in his arms. But the first thing I do after I get out of bed is put the water on to boil and the magic of the moment is gone.