Listen to the Music

whoa-a-whoa, listen to the music, (but not) all the time.

Imperative, indispensable, and essential to our process, non-fiction writers have to get out of the house. Fiction writers can stay in their homes for days on end, listening to the internal dialogues of the characters which they then write about. I wish I could tell a story, a yarn, or a tall tale, but I have tried and I cannot. (Yes, I have really, rea…