Transitions are hard. This is true whether we're talking about musical composition, novel writing, or human interaction. We tend to be much better at being in one stage or another than we are at the moving between them.
Sometimes we can't figure out how to smoothly transition from one state of being to another and simply stay where we are, or even just jump to the next state without preparation. For some of us, that jumping ahead works really well, but others need more time, more prep work. For some reason, the transitions are the tricky parts, the painful parts, the things that trip us up.
Sometimes we can even get stuck in transition mode, wallowing in the preparation to move on without ever actually getting around to the moving on.
