Rat's Country: Usually, when I first sit at my desk to write

Usually, when I first sit at my desk to write, I don’t have anything to say, like the moment when concert pianist seats himself at the piano bench, flipping the tails of his tuxedo and poising his hands above the keys. 

I love that instant of tension, space, silence, before  his hands come down on the keys,  filling the concert hall with sound.  In that moment before he begins, he must trust that something will come.