But I Don't Read Or Listen For

As For Collaboration - I Have Done A Lot, 26 Books, And Found Publishers Increasingly Resistive To Them. It's Not That The Books Are Bad; Editors Won't Even Read Them.

Here's A Secret: Fictive Text Doesn't Necessarily Flow Easily. Most Of The Time It's More Like Cutting A Highway Through A Mountain. You Just Have To Keep Working With Your Pick, Chipping Away At The Rock, Making Slow Progress.

...the Sweetest Temptation Could Be That Which Was Known To Be The Most Foolish.

Polishing: A Useful Lesson For The Hopeful Writer. You Say Your Tormented Prose Doesn't Read As Well As Mine? Neither Does Mine, At First!

I Wish My Readers Took Less Of My Time - About A Third Of My Working Time Goes To Them - But I Love And Need Them All.