New Footwork Can Give Your Old Mojo Young Legs--Reb MacRath
I had the right footwork down...so I thought. So there shouldn't have been any problem. Come on! I'd written more than a dozen novels...picked up a major award...and over the years I'd found tacks to turn books out more quickly without sacrificing quality. And yet here I was at the start of my next novel...shaky as a schoolboy before a major exam. I'd finished the usual first month of filling a Moleskine notebook with questions and notes. Done! I now knew the basic storyline and had two full months to cook up my outline. This has worked over and over--and yet my confidence was fading. On an unrelated whim one day I ordered a package of reporter's stiff-covered 3.75" x 8" notebooks manufactured by Portage. I'd thought the size would be perfect for household use: one book for finances...one for tracking orders...one for bills...etc. But I had a lightbulb moment the same day the notebooks arrived. I could try using one of these for 'master keys...