How to have a fast start every time you sit down to write

Here's a tip that I learned from the late great Ed Hoch, master of the short mystery story. 

Although we both lived in Rochester, the first time we met was at the Edgar Awards ceremony. I was up for best-first (It's an honor just to have been nominated) and Ed was receiving a well-earned, much-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award. We were talking over cocktails (me asking lots of questions, him giving brilliant advice to every one) when he said that he never had a problem getting started every day because of how he left off the night before: 'Never write to the end of a chapter, the end of a paragraph, the end of a sentence or even to the end of the word.'

Brilliant.

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