hOW NOT to WriTE a NoVEl

If I can't have that writing studio in the woods you can buy me this instead...

http://datamancer.net/keyboards/scrabble/scrabble.htm





or this!!!

http://www.rebound-designs.com/catalog/show/904.htm

it's minus 25 outside and I'm drawing cartoons...

why I need a bigger office or a secretary or something...

I thought I was pretty organized, frankly. Most people think of me that way, but apparently all of us were wrong. Because recently, when an artist I met wanted to see an alphabetical bestiary I wrote several years and two computers ago, I couldn't find the damn thing. Somehow, I managed to leave it behind when transferring files from desktop to desktop to laptop, perhaps discouraged by too frequent rejections.

Eventually I found a print-out in one of many bankers' boxes that are scattered across my office like foundation stones for the library of my dreams. But it was a close call.

You know you are getting old when you start thinking about all the work you've lost, misplaced, or abandoned over the years! But my friend Robert Priest has the right attitude: when I remarked that I now had as many unpublished books as published ones, he quipped, "I have as many unwritten books as written ones."