Susan Straight Finds La's Secret Heart In

This Is All You Have To Do. Sit Down Once A Day To The Novel And Start Working Without Internal Criticism, Without Debilitating Expectations, Without The Need To Look At Your Words As If They Were Already Printed And Bound. The Beginning Is Only A Draft. Drafts Are Imperfect By Definition.

A Peasant That Reads Is A Prince In Waiting.

Freedom Is A State Of Mind, I Said Wondering Where I'd Heard It Before, Not A State Of Being. We Are All Slaves To Gravity And Morality And The Vicissitudes Of Nature. Our Genes Govern Us Much More Than We'd Like To Think. Our Bodies Can Not Know Absolute Freedom But Our Minds Can, Can At Least Try.

It Was Mid-november 2008. There Were Pirates Taking Ships With Impunity In African Waters, Terrorists Punching Holes In Indian Security, China Sinking Towards Depression Because Americans Were Afraid To Buy Cheap Goods For Christmas, And The Richest Nation In The History Of The World Was Talking About How To Keep A Budget.

I'm Writing, I'm Using Language, I'm Using That Language To Tell Stories And Even More So To Get Ideas Across. And I Just Love That, And I've Always Loved That.