I Can't Imagine Writing If I Didn't

Everything Goes. I Am Working Very Hard At Not Thinking About How Everything Goes.

Somehow Writing Has Always Seemed To Me To Have An Element Of Performance.

That Was The Year, My Twenty-eighth, When I Was Discovering That Not All Of The Promises Would Be Kept, That Some Things Are In Fact Irrevocable And That It Had Counted After All, Every Evasion And Every Procrastination, Every Mistake, Every Word, All Of It.

On The Whole, I Don't Want To Think Too Much About Why I Write What I Write. If I Know What I'm Doing ... I Can't Do It.

Lancaster, California ... That Promised Land Sometimes Called 'the West Coast Of Iowa.