BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: WHY DID IT TAKE SHEREE-LEE OLSON MORE THAN TWO DECADES TO WRITE HER FIRST NOVEL?
In a piece for Zoomer magazine last fall, she examines the process of aging with the characters in her head, and how a very different book emerged at the end.
Like all binary thinkers, Aesop was only partly right. Slow, steady, single-minded tortoise wins the race. Sometimes. Overconfident bunny peaks too soon, falls into twenty-year nap. Or maybe the bunny just had to lose a few races. To grow up a little. To figure out where the finish line really is.