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“A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.”
Madeleine L'Engle quotes
Madeline L'Engle is one of my all time favorite authors. According to the preface in her just released last-first novel, "Joys of Love" that was written by her granddaughter.
"Her (Madeline's) spirit suffered badly with those rejections (to her work), but she never stopped writing, never stopped trying. Hers remained a legacy of discipline and dogged persistence. She has always said that being published doesn't make you a writer - writing does." (Page ix of the introduction to , "The Joys of Love".
For many years now I've written poetry, articles, essays and even some songs. I've not yet attempted to assemble any of these writings into a complete volume. Yet that is. For the last year, I've felt this leading or push to start thinking of what that would be and look like. I'm still not quite sure on how to get the ball rolling, but I do want to try. I know in my heart that I am a writer, published or not, but I feel as if my books is beginning to say "Hello" and asking me to collaborate with it.
So "Hello" back to book whomever you are. I'm happy you said "Hello".
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Now, I'll have to.
See how that works?
Now.....on with the writings....