If someone has ever told you to fear the blank white page, they are wrong. The blank white page is actually one of the best things that can happen to a writer. Nothing has gone wrong yet, nothing that doesn’t work, a world of opportunities ahead. It’d be like someone telling you to fear a fuel gauge pointing to the letter F. All you have to do is accelerate.
By all means, be afraid that you will not get there safely. That you shall be mangled by the journey. That you will lose more than you gain along the way. Fear the things that will come at you, the people that might try to destroy you. Fear how well you are built to resist collisions, whether you can keep momentum when you have slowed down to a near halt far away from your destination. Fear that you will battle through the journey and no one will have cared, or noticed. Or that, no matter how much you have already battled, people insist that you are not there yet.
And once you have moved past the fear of the blank white page, understand that all these other, bigger, realer fears, have the exact same solution. Every problem or fear or obstacle a writer faces can be dealt with simply: by writing.
