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Getting the Work Done
After years of having it on my To-Do list, I finally have a website. Years ago, I worked as a web designer, and I taught web design. But my focus as a writer has been on the writing. Until now. Seven years ago, I started work on my first book, a memoir-told-in-essays now titledĀ And I Will Give You As Many Roast Bones As You Need. Earlier this summer, the book was 350 pages, about 117,000 words, across 21 chapters. I’ve added a chapter, but I trimmed the book down about twenty pages, and I’m still plugging away on the next draft. I pitched a handful of agents earlier this year,…