HeadSpace

Sunday afternoon. Sitting on my couch. Thinking. Thinking a lot. Wondering why I'm in this HeadSpace. It seems like the perfect lazy Sunday activity, no? But then, almost out of nowhere, there is a thought in my head (how zen, right). This simple thought leads to another, of course, and suddenly - without realizing that it was even what I was thinking about - I have the first few lines of my book.

We all know that the first line is the most important (and the most dreaded by the lone writer staring wide-eyed at the blank page)... but developing the first few lines is even MORE exciting to me because it finally starts to really frame the tone of the writing and tie together my personal point of view on the content. Finally.