On Introductions

I am thinking of giving The Greenlanders to my brother, and I pictured in my mind, his reading of it. I felt a tick of anxiety over his formative moments with the book, which brough my mind to my own formative moments with the book.

Beginnings, in writing, to me, are so important. I hate waiting for a book to pick up, and it must be ego, but I look for the author grasping for the loose folds of my shirt, trying to draw me behind the curtain into the world of the book.

My book will grab people with a long ramble. Anyone who has no patience for my rambling wouldn't enjoy my writing anyway. However much I break my sentences into bite sized bits of steak, the whole could not be anything but a ramble.

The times when I cannot write an email, a letter, a journal entry, or any bit of writing to others of more than two sentences, my struggle becomes which of the 360 degrees of life forms my starting point, but once I have the seed, that seed punctures the skin of thought and the words usually flow outward.

On the topic of beginnings, I love this quote from Orson Welles, "whether you have a happy or sad ending depends upon where you stop the story." I would say the same is true of beginnings; where in the story shall the author start?

And in dancing, the start of the dance must be sure, and confident, or the girl does not recover her trust, and I dance more jovially to make the rift less painful. (thinking more) a confident dancer isn't necessarily undone, however, there are chances to start fresh even within a song, it's possible to hang time and then start into the rhythm again.