Begin It Now

Behind the scenes of a writing life: Over sixty and just getting started!

Some people call this the vomit draft; some, the shitty first draft; some, the kitchen sink draft; some, the zero draft. Some might even call it “daft”! I call it a printout of Acts I, II, and III of my memoir-in-progress.

The world has been noisy, hasn’t it? Cacophonous, insistent, discordant. Though the written word is silent on the page and screen, n…