Day 3. Hope begins in the dark. It is a revolutionary patience.

Car trips and the joys of not meeting word counts. Day 3 of 22 in the November Daily Write-Along.

Matthew Porter, “Airport Road” (2009)

Hope begins in the dark

it is a revolutionary patience¹

So, too, is writing.

E. L. Doctorow said: "Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights. But you can make the whole trip that way."

A whole trip—this writing session, this month, a few years—made partially in the dark, the cool air of mystery on our cheeks. And isn’t that lovely, if also a bit scary?