Writing Is It

Made a list today. No surprise that writing was high on the list of things that make me feel essentially myself...

it's very difficult to work as a writer, teach writing and also love writing as a soulful part of your, um, soul. But that's what I do.

Daily, I hear stories and have ideas for books. Today, I got the idea for more adventures of Riley, my main character in one novel and a major/minor character in another one. This would be a collection of stories from his days as a cabbie. I'm sure it's been done, but Riley is so lovely and odd and special to me, his character would carry the thing. It would NOT be like Mr. Rourke on Fantasy Island.

Since I brought it up, here's a little slice of heaven: the intro to an episode from 1978. (Beware the intro and outro sound from the retrorebirth folks.)
Fantasy Island