Letting the Book Show You the Way

I have found the time, after too much time, to look back over the 186 pages of the novel-in-progress I had been writing before edits of other books came in, and client work, and a mini-house makeover (paint, the excision of cob webs, the scrubbing of a deck, the lightening of closets). I sat there, yesterday and early today, on the living room couch, and I read.

The proper foundation, I have discovered, has been laid.

It is time to take the book forward, to see, as E.L. Doctorow in this wonderful New York Times video interview says, just what the book will reveal itself to be. You work it out as you go along, he says.

Yes, indeed. You do.