Creative Process: The Newest Book

The newest book of all is the one living in your mind. Do you put it on paper? Do you speak it out loud only at night? Do you whisper it to the trees?

Putting the words on paper can be scary, thrilling, aggravating.

Are you writing your second book? They ask. Who asks? Who are "they"?

They. They are always out there having a margarita and giving advice.

Yes, I do have a second book. A book-in-waiting. A book-in-writing. Or revising.

I want my revision to be radical. I don't know if it needs to...