Visual I.V.

The first sentence...

I was prompted today to write the first sentence in what would be my novel. I'm no writer per-se but I had to start it with "Hello, my name is David and the future is out to get me." It seems that phrase that I picked up somewhere in the past has always haunted me. No matter where I go or what I do the future is always right there in front of me. It scares me at times. But the next thing, the next action, is always right there.
the eternal "Here comes what's next..."
That first sentence would have to be written moment to moment. describing, defining, illuminating everything that is so subjective to THAT moment and not in relation to all others.
Also, the first sentence HAS to be written. The second can never come first. All things in order.
What I think I need to get at is the necessity to live in the first sentence. The others will come in succession. What has been written is in permenant ink.
I've looked ahead so often I miss the individual beauty of the first sentence. And in trying to look ahead I see nothing because that sentence is yet unwritten.
So I miss creativity inspired by the moment. I think it's time to look around.

posted by David Hicks @ 2:09 PM