Q: Really, you’re just proposing a series of book about a working writer, scuffling and making do.
A: Yes.
John D. MacDonald told Dan Rowan, “People are interested in the mechanics of a craft. Remember The Violent World of Sam Huff?”
Q: Mary Karr’s third memoir, after The Liar’s Club and Cherry, was called Lit.
A: Talk about a soap opera.
Q: You’re like the guy who moved back to the small town he grew up in.
A: Then moved to the small town his wife grew up in.
So they could raise their kids in a small town.
You can live anywhere and write.
Q: But not live anywhere and have a career.
A: Sure you can, with the Internet.
Cable TV and Netflix.
I can rent all the movies Quentin Tarantino watched in the video store from Netflix.
I can order any book I want with one click, on the Internet.
Q: Not your books.
A: You can read them online.
Download them, print them out, and read them. As they are being written.
Q: You have it made. You can stop worrying and take care of business.
A: Yes.