A Few Terribly (Un)Important Thoughts On Writing…

… my experience of it anyway!

The more I write, novels in particular, the more I feel that books are like rivers: they know their course — and similarly may change it if and as conditions require. The role of the writer, then, is to chart the river’s course, from the headwaters to the sea, an experience that can very often resemble expeditions to discover the source of such mighty rivers as the Nile and Amazon. Yet when you get there, well—that’s certainly a moment.