The blank page isn’t judging you. It’s just waiting to see what you’ve got.

Nothing on an empty page is actually looking at you. The judgment you feel coming off it is your own, projected forward as the imagined reaction of people who have not seen anything yet. That imagined audience is always harsher and better informed than the real one. The page is paper waiting for a mark, and the first mark ends the standoff instantly.

Put something down before you have decided what it is. A word, a line, a chord, anything that makes the page stop being blank. Starting badly on purpose is a reliable way past the part that stops most people.