Writer's Block

I spend so much time just staring at the screen. If I use paper, I mess it up by scribbling in the corners. I don't like writing on a messy page, so that one gets torn out. Then I maybe squiggle lines on the next one, and try to turn the squiggles into a face or a strange animal caricature. At some point, my head goes completely blank, and the only phrase I can dig up is, "I love you." I don't know why it is always the first thing that comes to mind. It is hardly ever an appropriate start to what I'm writing, as this most often happens when I am writing a paper for a class. Hey, maybe my right brain figures I can soften up the teacher a little bit, or maybe the left thinks I can get out of writing the paper to go to a shrink for the day. When I am writing a piece for myself, I start jotting down words that I think are pretty, and then attach symbols to them. Usually in this frame of mind, everything I produce appears mediocre or worse. So I always come back to, "I love you."