Joining the Flailing Club with Shelley Duvall
I will admit that I've not been paying very much attention to this blog (my last entry, I was shocked to find out, was over two months ago). I apologize, though it's for good reason. I've been writing my Ah Toy book quite regularly, and my excuse (to myself at least) is that I would rather spend my writing energy - which comes in finite daily amounts - on the book rather than the blog. Nobody has written to me to complain, which is nice, but that could be akin to saying that the baby bird is no longer clamoring for food because it has flown off in search of a more attentive parent! (I've never heard of a bird doing this, but . . .) . . . while we're on the subject, I'd like to quote from a book that I've mentioned before , Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. It relates to a minor panic attack I had a few weeks ago. My students assume that when well-respected writers sit down to write their books, they know pr...