Something strange happened this morning.
I was sitting at my desk here in Chateau Grundy, coffee cup in hand and two boiled eggs by my side. I opened up my laptop, fired up a browser window, loaded my email software and placed my hands on top of the keyboard, ready and waiting for my daily email creative juices to start flowing.
And then…
Nothing!
Now, I’ve been in this position before.
I know if I take a sip of coffee, nibble some egg and go back to my screen, something will come.
So that’s what I did. But inspiration still didn’t strike.
So I slurped some more coffee and nibbled some more egg.
Still nada.
Thing is, I've written more than 1,000 of these daily emails. Which means you'd think writing email #1,001 would be a walk in the park. That I’d know exactly how to summon inspiration or have some foolproof method for coaxing the words out of hiding by now.
But apparently not.
And actually, I rather like that.
It means email #1,001 starts in exactly the same place as email #1 did:
With a blank screen and no idea what I'm going to put on it.
I suppose the difference is that after 1,000 emails, I’m a lot less bothered by it. I've seen enough blank screens turn into emails to know I don't need to know what I'm going to write before I start writing.
Which, now I think about it, is true of quite a lot of things.
Anyway, I appear to have written an email after all.
So I think I'll leave it there for today.
To fulfilment,
Tom