The first step
Posted at 22:03:54
on Mon, June 11th 2007 by graham
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Seth Godin sums up the starting-a-story problem perfectly:
That Moment
When you are sitting right on the edge of something daring and scary and creative and powerful and perhaps wonderful... and you blink and take a step back. That's the moment. The moment between you and remarkable. Most people blink. Most people get stuck. All the hard work and preparation and daring and luck is nothing compared with the ability to not blink.
A couple of nights ago, without really realising what I was doing, I wrote the opening paragraphs for novel-the-second, or at least something like them. And looking at the above quote I realise: I've already taken the first step. Now its just a matter of putting the words on the paper. No excuses.
Whatever you do, don't blink (with apologies to Steven Moffat).
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