What I learned from writing the novel (so far):

this ... is the way you are to feel when you are writing -- happy, truthful and free, with that wonderful contented absorption of a child stringing beads in kindergarten. (Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write, page 52.

I have loved Ms. Ueland's book for a good twenty years, but, after having completed the draft of my novel, it makes sense to me in a way it never did before. More under the cut: ( Read more... )