Q: Owen describes a gig at
A: That’s my literary career. Two 50¢ hotdogs and $20 cash.
Q: I have a suggestion.
A: Shoot.
Q: Change the title of Double-Sawbuck (XX): Twenty Months of Daily Typewriting to Three-Ring Circus: Combining Family, Work, and Writing.
Instead of naming the books after months, and taking a month to write them, call the three books FAMILY, WORK, and WRITING, and spend as long as you need to on each book.
A: Okay. So I’m writing FAMILY.
Q: Yes.
A: And Three-Ring
Circus: Combining Family, Work, and
Writing will be like Larry McMurtry’s three memoirs Books, Literary Life, and
Q: Yes.
A: Who wants to read three memoirs by a person
who has never had a movie made of one of his books. Or even a book published by
Q: The Buzzard Cult.
A: Oh, yea. The Buzzard Cult.
My coterie of steadfast readers.