Moving On

Larry McMurtry wrote a fabulous novel in his earlier days and I always find that not many people have read it. It is called "Moving on" and it about the difficulty of doing that.

I feel his pain.

In the forward to that book, McMurtry revealed that how he wrote a book was to think of a title first, then write the book around it.

This is hard to believe and I'm not sure McMurtry wasn't just leading us on. But he told the story in the context of having the material for this book after writing "All My Friends Are Going to be Strangers," (another great book) and how difficult it was to come up with a title after finishing the novel.

Maybe that is the secret. Spend three months coming up with a title, then write the book around it.

Nah, that's the kind of thing that would only work if your name is "McMurtry."

For people with my last name - and maybe yours - there is another answer. Too bad we don't know what it is yet.

Yours in rejection,

Phil