The answer may be in your photo album - a little old fashioned 50's domestic discipline... someone to keep an eye an you, monitor your progress and smack your bottom when you have been a lazy girl...

;-)

GaryQ

been there for years

I conceived a novel when i was 19 that I've written no more than the first page of so many times that I gave up and started writing the first page of the sequel. Then I went insane and started channeling advertising from the future. I have boxes of that. I usta write poetry but now I only write aphorisms. I think of A Confederacy of Dunces, and if I were to die. No one will be able to make sense of my notes and publish me post-humously. Supposedly James Joyce has been trying to channel his encyclopedic follow-up to Finnegans Wake from beyond, and no one is biting. Why, if I have to be insane, cannot I have graphomania? I take meds but they haven't come up with Inspirol, or since I already have the novel plotted out in my head, Perspirol for the extra umph to get it done. I guess I could be working on it now, but instead I waste time trying to be clever on Tribe.

I've writen two book and a number of short stories. But sence my devorce I've hardly looked at my writing. With my editor gone it's going to be hard to get back.

Patrick