I have written more than 100 novels and novellas since 1983 - I was first published in 1985. There was an overlap of three years with my teaching career, but finally I felt good enough about my writing career to quit teaching and write full time.
I have read somewhere that we often spend a lifetime searching for what we already have.
Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.
Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.
Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.
Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.
I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.