After a conversation with a friend yesterday, I have been thinking about how one gets what one wants. The first step, of course, is to figure out WHAT you want. I know what I want. I want to be a writer. To spend my life writing, to write until I am 94…or older!…to write book after book […]
Lots of big doings here this week. 1) We have a new dog at our house, and some new rules in place for the fourteen-year-old (and for me). 2) I emailed my novel manuscript to my agent. The last time I did this, I didn’t hear back for a month, then I was asked (very […]
“Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you’re writing your poem, there’s one less scoundrel in the world. And I’d like a […]