If Your Train's On The

Writers Who Can't Invent Stories Often Substitute Style For Narrative. They Remind Me Of The Painter Who Couldn't Paint People, So He Painted Chairs.

To Any Writer: Teach Yourself To Work In Uncertainty. Many Writers Are Anxious When They Begin, Or Try Something New. Even Matisse Painted Some Of His Fauvist Pictures In Anxiety. Maybe That Helped Him To Simplify. Character, Discipline, Negative Capability Count. Write, Complete, Revise. If It Doesn't Work, Begin Something Else.

The Wild Begins Where You Least Expect It, One Step Off Your Normal Course

Where To Look If You've Lost Your Mind?

Comedy, I Imagine, Is Harder To Do Consistently Than Tragedy, But I Like It Spiced In The Wine Of Sadness.