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February 18th, 2010

My book is slowly but surely unfolding into what I sincerely hope will be a most exciting and fascinating tale of adventure, tragedy, humor and humanity. Yes, there will be sword fights. Yes, there will be dashing heroes (and heroines). There will be beer.

I don’t know how else to describe this process, except to recall the printed out quote my mother had taped to her filing cabinet in her office when I was a child. It was by Gene Fowler, and it went like this:

“Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood keep reading »