I have to admit, a blank piece of paper, a blank page, a blank canvas, all excite me.  In the same way the vastness of the ocean or the desert do.  It’s not like the mountains.  They speak loudly and clearly.  The desert and the ocean tend to speak much softer.  Why do the masses flock to the ocean, but not so much to the desert, Las Vegas excluded.  I myself, am drawn toward these blank, open places that are open and new.  I see a composition book and immediately get excited.  Must be the “I want to be a writer” in me.  It could be that I live in a very densely populated area.  Either way, I love open space, open land, open and free thought and expressiveness.  After all, life is begun as a blank piece of paper…so write your story.