Kimberly Hartwig

My battle with the blinking cursor

What to do (and not to do) when faced with writer’s block By Kimberly Hartwig Photos by Ben Buckley SASKATOON (The Sheaf) — You pump yourself up, telling yourself you are going to crush this paper. This paper is going to be your bitch. You are confident, self-assured. You can do this! You are an intelligent university student, after all. But when the time comes, when you sit down in front of your computer to make the magic happen — nothing. All that stares back at you is the depressing emptiness of the white page, not the groundbreaking, earth-shattering ideas…

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