I must editorialize here for a second, and say thanks, Jancee, for finding it easier to write a novel. Non-writers or even writers who have never written a memoir and aren't totally ego-driven, don't understand how truly difficult it is to dig so deep into yourself, and much more...  but enough.

I ask every writer about their writing habits hoping to find that the key is slacking off, and spending endless hours on emails. However...

I get up, have breakfast, and then block off three hours of uninterrupted time, because the morning is when I'm freshest. I used to waste that time on e mails but no more. Then I have lunch and do a couple more hours.

I'm very disciplined, and at 6 p.m, I'm done for the day, like a senior citizen. A few friends of mine write at night but I get too tired (again, like a senior.) I use the Graham Greene model of writing 500 words a day. After that, I begin to ramble.

Another writer heard from. Endless emails and slacking off isn't the way to success. So much for my fantasy of never actually having to do anything.

Jancee Dunn is one of my newest favorite writers. I had two copies of her book and now have none, as people would "borrow" them. Nobody can resist: But Enough About Me...

I don't usually plug books by writers who didn't start as bloggers. But I saw the book at Borders. The title grabbed me, the cover intrigued me, and the first page had me hooked.

I can't be at her New York Women In Communications event at Planet Hollywood in New York on September 25, as I'm writing this from another type of shag capital, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, but if you're in New York please go, and say hello for me.