Thanks for the article, SRS. It is fun to read of others' methods. I'd go nuts if I tried to do what Lippman does, though! (Like the idea of artwork after, though!) And I like her books. I do most of my writing in my head...kind of the highlights, then when I sit down I just start typing. Of course it needs to be edited, but usually not all that much. My Rog made me feel really good the other day when he told me I don't realise how easy it is for me when other folks, i.e. the young reporters he works with, struggle over each story of a few hundred words. I don't feel that superior, if at all, but I do forget that I have put a lot of years into learning to be a writer and have developed my own way of going about it. I have the informal "Mudcat Writers' Group" to thank for some of that.

I have been picking up and putting away stuff as I walk through the house the past few days. Failed miserably on exercise...haven't done much, but I do have new Birks and have been way more active, so I am counting that!:-)