"I will write this novel." I told myself that for 34 years and finally wrote my first one. Started my second, it collapsed in a pile of mush and then resurrected on Substack as "Lamb" - def hear you, Linda. And here's a quote from a book I'm reading now, oddly appropriate for the writer's life - an old Armenian saying: "Life is a dance on a tongue of fire." :)
As a poet, I had always said, “I know I have a novel in me. Someday I’ll write one.” I was in my 40s when I wrote that first one (safely in a drawer where nobody can or should read it). And finally in my 50s I wrote the second one, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2022. The third one comes out on 2/27/25! And now, I’m indeed dancing on a tongue of fire trying to write the next one.
"I will write this novel." I told myself that for 34 years and finally wrote my first one. Started my second, it collapsed in a pile of mush and then resurrected on Substack as "Lamb" - def hear you, Linda. And here's a quote from a book I'm reading now, oddly appropriate for the writer's life - an old Armenian saying: "Life is a dance on a tongue of fire." :)
As a poet, I had always said, “I know I have a novel in me. Someday I’ll write one.” I was in my 40s when I wrote that first one (safely in a drawer where nobody can or should read it). And finally in my 50s I wrote the second one, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2022. The third one comes out on 2/27/25! And now, I’m indeed dancing on a tongue of fire trying to write the next one.