A Pair of Paragraphs
I read Cole's post titled Just one good paragraph, where he references a blog post by Ratika Deshpande. Deshpande writes, "A paragraph is a good place to begin." How true! It can be daunting to sit with a blank page, but if we reduce our expectations, we can increase the chances of producing something.
We can even take this approach one step further (or shorter, depending on your perspective). We can aim to write at least one sentence. A few words, forming a sentence, and another, and suddenly we have a whole paragraph. And before we know it, we might discover that we've actually written two paragraphs.