The 12 Steps to Writing a Book

Every week after class she asked me what I had, and every week I gave her a list of aborted ideas. When the semester ended I said, you win, but Addie said it hadn't been a contest. She made me promise that I would keep trying for plot. In any case I didn't try again until six corners came out. The way he remembered it, John had once said in class that I shouldn't be teaching writing because I'd never had a best-selling book. He was now saying to me: "I humiliated you"