Nancy Bartholomew

My 99 year old lady said the secret of life is all in how you decide to approach it.  "You can have a good one or a bad one," she told me.  "It's up to you."

I suppose that's how it is with writing, too. 

I don't believe this on bad days.  On days when my life seems to fall to pieces, or the writing doesn't go as well as I might like, I decide it's all in the hands of the publishers or the agents or worse, Lady Luck.

But again, that's just how I choose to look at it on a bad day.  On good days, it's all up to me.  If I write it, I tell myself, they will come.

Sigh.  We writers are such a neurotic group!