I write a little every day, without hope, without despair—Isak Dinesen
What’s scary isn’t the writing, it’s living with the writing. I’m afraid that if I say, Today is day one, Today we are beginning the life of Writing This Book, that I’ll fail before I even get started. I’ve failed before. I have many excuses, so many reasons to put it to the side: my kid, my job, my other job, my other other job,...
The idea is to read the novel I wrote last summer at reading series over this summer, then rewrite it again. Then sell it. Then win this bag of beavers, bitches. Chapter Two (excerpt) at Two Cookie Reading Series tomorrow (May 1, Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Belmont at 9pm); Chapter Three at RUI:Reading Under the Influence on Wednesday, May 2nd (Sheffield’s 3258 N Sheffield at 7pm). I don’t know why its not...