How to Write on a Blank Screen

When I was a grad student at UVM and I taught, uh, writing in- in those rooms where there was, like, Macbooks in- in all the room. One of the things I used to tell the students to do is if they were having trouble writing, like, if we were doing a in-class writing thing,. If you were having trouble thinking, like, turn the- turn the brightness all the way off of the screen, because it'll be, uh, black. And some people did it, but a lot of people, it was actually kind of like, they- they were really put off. It was like a- a real uncanny experience for them