Looking forward to seeing more writing (hint, hint), read my email to a writing coach client with whom I had recently started working.
I got nuthin… What the hell… It’s in there…, she replied.
I quickly reviewed our notes from her last few sessions and discovered at least dozen possible writing prompts that had come up during our conversations. I emailed those over, along with four other quick questions that I hoped would get her writing again.
Her next email made me laugh. I’m pretending I’m Nora Roberts with a draft due and cancelled my afternoon and evening appts, she wrote. So, I will write later today… I have no idea what you will get tonight, but it will be something.
I’m going to call her Nora from now on. The Sloppy Letter to Linden she sent that night was as perfect as a sloppy letter could be–big, juicy and, yes, sloppy. So were the three she sent the following day. What a way to get your writing priorities straight!
So which rich, famous and prolific author do you want to be?
Alexander McCall Smith — writing from some judges’ paneled library in Edinburgh. That man is so prolific!