The Graveyard of Bad Ideas

And other danger zones on the route to publication

Happy New Year, one and all! I realize it’s been the New Year for almost a month now, but things happen. Our holiday decorations are still heaped in plastic storage bins in a public room of the house. Time achieves new meaning in deep midwinter.

But with the new year comes a need for new projects, and for any writer the politics of project selection loom…