"Writing a novel is like driving a car at night.
You can only see as far as the headlights,
but you can make the whole trip that way."
E.L. Doctorow
In the Bookstore...
Doctorow's comment describes equally well our ride through life.
We don't know what's coming around the next curve in the road.
I got the degree in English & Creative Writing, but didn't finish a novel until I was 52, didn't find a publisher until 55.
From college to then was a loopy, circuitous route with lots of
day jobs--from building houses to owning a bookstore.
And I do believe it's that living stuff that lays the predicate, as it were,
for our stories and our books.
We don't know what's coming around the next curve in the road.
I got the degree in English & Creative Writing, but didn't finish a novel until I was 52, didn't find a publisher until 55.
From college to then was a loopy, circuitous route with lots of
day jobs--from building houses to owning a bookstore.
And I do believe it's that living stuff that lays the predicate, as it were,
for our stories and our books.
