Welcome back! I hope you all had a productive summer – and if not productive then lazy and happy. I'm in New York right now and spent yesterday afternoon with a daughter at the Strand Bookstore – 18 miles of books! And I just delivered the final manuscript for A Year of Writing Dangerously which will be published next May by New World Library. (You'll be hearing more about this ad nauseum from the Marketing Whore as the pub date draws closer).

Where are you with your writing? Do you have a first draft of a story, essay, or a book? An almost finished draft? Something to send out? Or are you in a stuck place, feeling as Abigail Thomas once said when she wasn't writing, "like a cat without whiskers". Write yourself an intention: This is the month/year that I will…. (start a journal, finish my book, write an essay.) We'd love to hear what it is. Leave a comment.