I Want to Be Alone – A Writer’s Life

Greta Garbo should’ve been a writer. She definitely had the right mindset.

Being writers, we often feel a natural inclination to sequester ourselves, to hibernate, to dig a moat around our homes and keep the drawbridge in a permanently upright position. Does that make us anti-social? Maybe. Yet it definitely makes our environment more conducive to writing.

Ye Olde Log Cabin

I was probably in my most ideal setting while living in a log cabin in the mountains of Southern Appalachia. No, this w...