Here’s my thought for the day about writing. Once underway, the basic process resembles a giant boulder rolling down a steep hill. In other words, one page leads to two, two leads to three and so on. The longer the ball races down the hill, the faster it travels, the easier it is to write a coherent page on the first try. After all, objects in motion tend to stay in motion.

Now when the writing is going like that, the best approach is just to work with it. Trying to wrestle a rolling boulder back up a hill is well, rather like arguing with a skydiver in the midst of a free fall. Inertia justs wants to bring them back in for a landing.

But there’s a trade off, because there are precious few hills of infinite height, which means and some point the boulder must be “reloaded” and pushed back up the next hill for another trip down.

Thus the journey begins and ends, and begins again. And sometimes rolling with momentum is just as hard as trying to create it.