What, Why, How: Louise Farmer Smith

What?

“What is it you want out of all of this?”

This was my husband’s plaintive and exasperated question regarding my continuing to write fiction. He was in pain. A short story of mine or a book or a query to an agent had again met with rejection. I can’t remember which because I was not in as much pain as he was. In his career he has not met with steady or even intermittent rejection, whereas I bring it on myself in waves. At one time I tried to keep five different short stories in the US m...