Beginnings, endings, middles

Rainer Maria Rilke: It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

Dark clouds and then rain. A tiny cell and then life. An idea and then masterpiece. These are beginnings and endings. The end points of processes. I am going to explore the “middles,” the labor it takes to complete my literary projects, along with the many frustrations and doubts that afflict me along the way. And when they come, I will revel in my successes, too.

Read, write, execute!