Lynn Viehl/PBW always has these quotes up… a ‘thought for the month’ that is generally related to writing.  This month, it’s from Anne Stuart:

Part of me longs for the good old days, when I knew no other writers, when I typed out my story on a manual typewriter, three drafts worth, and sent it off blind to an agent in New York and crossed my fingers. When I didn’t know the rules, when all that mattered was the story.

You know, I cannot say enough just how very much I long for this.  Back before I started writing for a living, back before I had to worry about the promo aspects of writing, before I worried about selling the next, and the next, and the next…back when all I did was worry about the book.  Yep, I kind of miss that.