Sunday, March 30, 2014

The Glamorous Writing Life

Nancy and I have a simple and effective technique for weed control in the garden.  We cover the ground with a layer of newspaper, then cover the newspaper with leaves.  The newspaper acts as a biodegradable, water-permeable weed block.  By the next Spring, not a trace of it remains.

Unfortunately, this year, we didn't have enough newspaper to do the job, so I used pages a rough draft of my next novel, The Limongello Syndrome instead.  Here I am anchoring manuscript pages with dirt clods to keep them from blowing away before I cover them with dead leaves.

This is only a draft, and my agent now has the finished version; nevertheless, these pages represent years of my life spent writing this.

As I write this now, I am struggling for some further comment: a pun or witticism about the effect on the tomatoes, the nature of fame, or something.  But I have nothing more to offer than to show you the picture itself.