Aiming for Gold

Writing (at least, the way I do it) can be compared to archery, with the storyline as the trajectory of the arrow, ending hopefully in the centre of the golden bullseye that is the point and culmination of the book. The problem is that the arrow has to be aimed accurately at the beginning, or it will miss the target. Luckily a writer , unlike an archer, has the option to grab the arrow before it has gone too far and put it back in the bow for another shot.
That is exactly what I have been doing during the past week, writing and re-writing the start of the book so that the storyline is heading in exactly the right direction. Time and again I have set it off in the wrong direction, but after a week of trying I have finally succeeded in pointing the arrow where I want it to go.
So that's half a page written. Now all I have to do is to write the rest of the book.