Stumbling Forward

When I end up in conversation with aspiring authors, an unspoken implication is often woven into the questions they ask. In essence: “You must have followed some kind of plan. How did you come up with your plan?” Time after time, the news I’m forced to report back from the frontier is that—for me, at least—there is no plan, and never has been. What there has been, is a series of instances of wanting to write something and share it with an audience, and then stumbling forward from there like a blind elephant with a trick knee. Sure, I’ve learned a few things along the way about self-publishing, knowledge that I’m glad to share. But I rarely have more than a vague notion of what I might write next, and even when I think I do, both the circumstances I find myself in and the work itself have a way...

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