Finally figured out the right way to get past a blank page

I used to just stare at the screen for an hour, waiting for a perfect idea (which never came). Last week, I set a timer for 15 minutes and forced myself to write three terrible, silly sentences about a character in a grocery store. The sheer awfulness of those sentences broke the block and let me actually start. What's your go-to trick for getting the first words down?

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riley551mo ago

What's the worst sentence you can write? I just start with that... it's so bad it loops back around to working.

price.zara1mo ago

Remember that line you wrote, riley55? I once tried to fix a bad paragraph and somehow made the whole page blank.

joel_adams791mo ago

My last edit on a doc accidentally deleted three whole pages, lmao. Riley55 might be onto something with that bad sentence trick though. Sometimes trying to fix one small thing just makes a bigger mess.