Today I finally started writing a novel. I know a lot of people who say that they've got a book in them. I've got a few in me. But I honestly thought that those books - ideas and magical thoughts that played about in my head when I was anywhere but somewhere where I could write (the car, for example) - would stay in my head forever. I think most of all I was afraid that if I started writing I'd find that my ideas made crap books. Or that they were full of holes, lacking transitions and deploying transparent...
