A couple of basic beliefs about writing:
You only start to learn to write after you've thrown away your first million words.
And, from Samuel Beckett, "To find a form to accommodate the mess, that is the job of the artist now."
George Szanto is a novelist and essayist, currently living on Gabriola Island, BC. A former McGill University professor, he is the author of over a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction.