Too many folks trying to write essays get stuck before beginning, trying to make the perfect attention grabber. This is a bit of encouragement to begin in the middle.

1. An essay Where do you start?

2. Starting at the beginning can make you crazy.

3. But starting in the middle makes you happy.

4. Starting at the beginning takes too long . . .

5. Way too long.

6. So save yourself the stress of beginning at the beginning.

7. And just dive in -

8. To that beautiful middle.

9. After that, you can worry about the beginning.

10. But what about the end?

11. That part should be easy, so save it for last.

12. And then you’ll be happy.

13. So remember:

14. Start in the middle

15. Then slide into the beginning,

16. Then do the finish.

18. Special thanks to Peter Shanks and his FlickrCC search engine. http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php

19. Slideshow by Mr. Sheehy http://gs061.k12.sd.us