Creative block
Used to make things. Now staring at the blank page.
The blank page is not the problem. It is a symptom. Something stopped you before you sat down.
Creative block is almost never about the work. It is about what making the work would reveal — about your ability, your taste, your right to take up that particular kind of space. The inner critic that says "not yet" is not trying to protect the work. It is trying to protect you from finding out something you are afraid to know.
Murasaki spent a lifetime making things under conditions that required her to be invisible. The work survived. She understood something essential: craft is not inspired, it is practiced. And practice is not waiting to feel ready — it is showing up before you are.
The question is not how to feel inspired again. It is what you are making the creative act mean, and whether that meaning is actually serving the work.
What are you afraid the work will say about you if you finish it?
When did making things stop feeling like making things and start feeling like a test?
What would you make if no one was going to see it?