Write Me a Book as Fast as You Can!

Many of us grew up reciting nursery rhymes from Mother Goose. The other day I was thinking about how chaotic the writing life sometimes is. We live from deadline to deadline or feel like we’re stuck on an assembly line that slowly picks up speed. It’s easy to keep up at first, but pretty soon it gets harder and harder, until one day we burn out. Or lose the love. There’s no happy-ever-after, if you lose the love.

Enter Mother Goose and her rhymes. I was listening to a radio program, and someo...