R2E Excerpt #47*: The Rabbit Hole of Writing

It's so much easier to imagine writing great stuff than actually, um, writing it. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE

JUST AFTER MY ARRIVAL IN PARIS, I received a letter from my thesis-novel advisor, who suggested that I take what I’d learned from that first novel and roll it over into my next. Over the course of a few days in early September, I conjured a main character—a librarian from Ohio—who takes a job at the New York Public Library and becomes obsessed with the …