According to Ohio State University English Professor, Lee K. Abbott, “You’ll need to write as much junk as you are tall before you’ll ever produce something that somebody will want
. . . when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it’s called golf. The memoir I’m writing about my father’s last year is
“The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.”
– Mark Twain’s Notebook, 1902-1903
First, the good news. The semester’s over. Aimee Liu, my Advisor in the Goddard College low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing, accepted the second draft of my second attempt at
