Today I begin my career.

[substitute]

Today I write the invocation that opens my epic. Today I stretch the canvas for the first of my landscapes. Today I turn the first pot. Today I bang the chisel into the virgin marble as I start the first of my four hundred caryatids. Today, I pen the overture to my opera.

Today I write a hundred first lines to a hundred novels.

Tomorrow will be the same.

Comments

[effluvia.livejournal.com]

Beautiful, and defeating.

Did you write it?

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Yes. (I should have added "self-referential Livejournal entries" to that list.)