
JAWboning
Jawbone v. -boned, -boning, -bones to schmooze or chat with intent to persuade

Doesn’t EVERY BOOK START With Chapter 35?
I’m no psychologist, but I’ve discovered a handy prescription to help solve Life’s puzzles: to place myself inside people or situations that elude me, and write from that place until their “why” becomes clear.

FROM SHORTS to a NOVEL and who’s really in charge
Since I began writing in earnest—either pounding the keyboard for hours at a time or in a cloud somewhere working out a plot mess I’d gotten myself into––all of which in my mind counts equally as writing––it’s been a passion akin to breathing air. It’s hard to imagine I halflived through so many other occupations. THIS is what I should have done during my entire life.