stories on the wind

(the feeling of writing a book)

I’m writing my second book.

Those are thrilling and daunting words to type. I’ve done this before, but this time everything is new.

Sometimes, writing a book feels like tuning in to the whispers of the universe, and hearing murmured stories on the wind. Messages appear in unlooked-for places, in unexpected ways: a line in the newspaper, the title of a p…