A practical guide to taking that first step, letting go of the pressure to get it perfect, and starting to create with more freedom. A blank page can be intimidating for two opposing reasons: because it doesn’t contain anything yet, and because it could contain too many things at once. Before you begin, all the options seem wide open at once: the subject, the style, the tone, the color, the composition, the format—even the final result, which doesn’t even exist yet.