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"I had forgotten about how calm I felt learning about long-term projects, ones that stretch into the future, ones that their initiators have to trust other people to continue, to finish."

"You have just turned forty-nine, you are in your fiftieth year, and you are, perhaps also for the first time, feeling completely comfortable inside your skin...."

"I am wandering through Paris, on my birthday, with a friend..."

The joys of taking something out of context

Let's get that writing muscle toned and flexible!

"...since writing the previous pages three days ago the feeling has remained that you have reached a turning point, or some kind of if not breakthrough, then a new level of understanding."

"You are having trouble remembering what day it is. This is happening quite often."

My next Writing Muscle Workout, It's Time's first birthday, and thoughts on the synopsis

"[I was trying to write a book proposal. For this book. And I couldn’t. I couldn’t plan what might happen next. I freaked out."