Thomas PM Barnett is expecting:
Far more than passing kidney stones, I feel like waiting on a book release is like a woman waiting for labor--mostly it's dread and regret and the inability to get a decent night's sleep. I know that's being self-absorbed, but--again--that's why it's like heading toward labor: there is this all-consuming sense of an onrush of something either very good or very bad and you have a hard time sensing the possibility of anything in between those two extremes.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/02/a-writers-labor/206107/
