I’ve been reading Making a Literary Life, by Carolyn See. You might think, having been a freelance writer for nearly 30 years I would have got this covered, but it’s nice to check out some other advice. (I think the term is ‘life-long learning’. Or it might be status anxiety.) Anyway, it’s a wise, humane and funny book.

I don’t know her or her novels at all, but she sounds lovely. She died in 2016 and I read a couple of blog posts about her. One had this great quote:

The only bad thing that will happen to us is that we’re going to die, and that’s not immediate, so let’s just see if we can have the nicest time possible.¹

I needed that, this week.