MIDDLE MUDDLE

Here is a random thought for a Saturday afternoon. Where is the middle of your book? Before we even to begin to answer this question first we must start at the beginning. How many of us pick up that fresh new book and read the back before the middle or the beginning? That seems a bit pointless of having the book at all. ‘You do not write the first scene, before you know the last scene.’ To know the end, you must go deep into its heart, take the book as a whole and enjoy its journey like nothing else around us matters. John Grisham recently on said; ‘The one piece of advice I give to students who are studying literature is that “You do not write the first scene until you know the last scene” otherwise you get lost in the middle, and the story becomes pointless .’ That quote really struck out for me, I am more interested in the writing and the outcome than I am in into reading books. So often I will try to read a book and give up halfway ...