OH DEAR
Wait- I'll try to be more sober, which I'm not. Because you are so nice and serious and helpful.
Yes there are approximately 36 chapters in this collection. And I've published maybe 5 or 6 of them. I would dearly love to be a columnist- regularly. This week in the local weekly paper some woman published a column - her first- and I thought- well shit. I should have done that. I'm completely incapable of pushing my own work. COmpletely. It took so much courage to send stuff off to New York. EVen to the local paper. And they have been WONDERFUL to me.
I lecture Gaugs about his phenomenal talent, and he IS a phenomenal talent, but at the same time I see myself as a housewife writing grocery lists, and I have no right to chastise anyone!
I will, once sober, start to think agent, I promise.
But anyway, my writing has brought me so much joy! And it has brought me to all of you, and it's created a graduation present that I think, if not appreciated now, will be in the years to come. ANd so, as I collapse on the keyboard, - well hell that's not true, I'm really enjoying the feel of the keys clicking up and down-
Shoot-
I really need to eat something.
I never fed anyone.
Some mother.
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