The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

by Jean Hanff Korelitz

“I know, I know. I just don’t have a good idea yet.” “Sometimes it’s better not to wait for one. Sometimes it comes when you start something else. I had a client, once, who described it as jumping off a diving board and landing in a different pool.”

I once gave a talk up at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and someone asked me about getting an MFA. I said: just take the money you were going to spend on a program, rent a cheap place somewhere, and buy a paperback of Stephen King’s On Writing. They were scandalized.”

so all this truly was his fault, because you don’t dangle a free anything in the face of a Vermonter and not follow through. Everybody knew that.

Still, central Vermont was full of authentically falling-down houses. This one wasn’t all that special.