Now the rest of us are able to enjoy a little book called “Carrie.”

Many famous writers, and artists for that matter, never liked or felt confident in the works they created. They just wrote or painted what was on their mind and tried to be themselves and didn’t let somebody else’s opinion tell them what was pretty or not. Many of the masterpieces that have been created were never recognized as great works until the artist was dead.

I have always had tons of things bottled up inside me and I’ve never known how to put those thoughts on paper. You have a natural instinct to tell a great story, but it appears you’re just sitting and waiting for something to happen. Go ahead and be yourself and let me and other readers be given wonderful treat, and if you do send it to a publisher and they reject it then it is their loss not yours.

You have plenty of material you just need to start. You are very entertaining story teller – even with people that did not know you which is a good sign.

Michael, on that sentence, first, your question reminds me I don’t always communicate all that is intended. Many of the ideas and observations I took from the book have come to me independently over the last 8 years or so. I wish I had learned a little of the flexibility and tolerance I have now when I was younger. I also wish I’d had the courage to hit the road for a couple of years when I was in my twenties and broadened my experience base. That’s all it really means.
I read your thoughts about “serendipitous encounters” and “information serendipity” on your blog. I think the terms are excellent, concise descriptions of how and why we think the way we do.