K. Ritz
Write things down. Doesn’t need to be on paper. Typing is as good as writing with paper and pen – better for me because my handwriting is terrible. Just write down your thoughts. Don’t expect a first draft to be perfect. It’s a lump of clay that needs to be molded. Or rough pieces of wood that you hammered into the shape of a coffee table. It still needs to be sanded and stained and sanded again and polished before you can set a vase of flowers on top of it and admire their reflection. Sounds like work, and it is. If you don’t write down those first thoughts, however, what you have is only a dream.
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I couldn't find a way to contact you, so I hope this is okay. I just wanted to let you know how touched I was by Sheever's Journal. I absolutely loved that book, and am so glad you wrote & published it. I feel like I've been waiting for someone to write a novel like that for so long. I hope you write more, but even if you don't, that book means so much to me. GR says I have to end with ?
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