The Tao of Writing: ‘The Book That Can Be Spoken of Is Not the Book’ (Reprised, Sort-Of)

Recently, when addressing (the great!) Margaret Atwood’s “a word after a word after a word is power” I also quoted Lao Tzu’s “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”, relating it to how a book begins and ends with a single word.

(But oh my, it’s the betwixt and in-between of that first and last word, dear friends, as we – that’s me and thee, not the royal we – know all too well!)

All of which, together with another recent refeature on Writing As Vocation, put me in mind of a...