Here's something I have to learn over and over when I start something new: I have to be patient with the mess. And  I hate this. I want the perfection of the idea in my head to translate immediately to the page. I want to Xerox my brain, not actually have to write. I don't want the struggle of word by word, paragraph by paragraph, page by page.

This fabulous new idea I have for a book! I can see the cover. It's going to be a delicious read. It's what I want and need to read, and those are the books we have to write. But digging into is not pleasant. Just a bloody mess.