“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
Madeleine L'Engle
Things I like about writing: mom edition
Things I Like About Writing: Mom Edition
I get a creative outlet
I get to use words for something other than explaining why that battery operated Little People car can’t take a bath in the toilet
The only cleaning up is hitting ⌘S and closing my laptop
Beta-testing beta readers
I gave the first two chapters of my manuscript to my husband for the first time the other day. I've been working on this thing for five years, and I haven't let him look at it this entire time. I know. I might be holding it a little close…
On putting the story to paper
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.”
Gustave Flaubert
