Things That Go Bump in the Night

My last post got me thinking more about the similarities between pregnancy and writing–about how remarkably alike it feels to bring a baby into the world and to publish a book.  This is not, I realize, an especially original idea.  The whole “book as baby” metaphor has been used since Jane Austen called Pride and Prejudice “my own darling child,” and I’m sure long before then.  But what I was thinking about specifically was how similar the process of growing a baby during the 9 months of  pregna