Start Where You are, with writing and Everything

I read this bit of writing advice this morning: Start where you are.

It seems an evident fact. I can’t start over there, if I’m not over there. I always wish I was over there–wiser, far more cleaver and knowledgeable and organized, not only about whatever topic I’m writing about, but about everything. (That word ‘more’ seems to produce an abundance of dissatisfaction.) But the unchangeable truth of life is that power is only at the present moment where I am. That is where I’m living and breat...