Author Possibilities

I’ve been asked to do it. Heck, people assume that I already do! It’s time though – I need to WRITE again. An English degree was fairly easy for me because I like to read. Creative Writing was a class that I excelled in, but my writing pursuits have hardly progressed since.

Well, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to get starting on something. Baby steps toward a book series, perhaps? Here it is September, and I have done absolutely nothing. To get started, I sought inspiration from the great author Flannery O’Conner. Here are some quotable gems…

• Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

• It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

(sigh) Alright. Okay then. I think that’s a good enough start for now!