Is There Such a Thing as a Blank Page?

"There is no such thing as a blank page," he says. "You sit down and you think there is a blank page in front of you, but in fact there is already a ton of writing on that page" He talks about how one of the first things you're taught in school is to just use ask and said because it feels repetitive. But if you use a word like queried instead of asked, then that calls attention to itself., she writes. 'Everything you write is written for a certain assumption about your audience'