from reading people who know how to do this as I seem to get from NYRSF. Which is great, since NYRSF is only one weekend a month and the effect lasts about 4 days after I catch up my sleep.

I’ve been reading Secret Windows, which are essays and articles by Stephen King about writing and being a writer. I’m not real interested in Joe Blow’s school of writing text. I’m much more interested in stuff written by the people who actually write for a living.

Sigh, I’m too goddamn picky or fussy or a snob, or something. This elimates a good deal of the “how to write” books, believe it or not. All kinds of people will tell you how to write a novel, whether or not they’ve actually ever done it successfully, or not.

jkd