CNF :: Starting Over

That’s what writers do: we start over. For a writer, every day is a new day with a new beginning. Even if we are writing an essay or a book chapter we have been working on for days or months—or years!—we face our notebook or keyboard not really knowing what is going to happen to our work next. We may think and hope that we know, but we really don’t—at least until we are deep into the story. Even then, we are invariably surprised.

Lee Gutkind from his What’s the Story introduction to the 4th Annual Readers’ Choice Theme issue of Creative Nonfiction – Starting Over: Hitting the Reset Button