Divination and Confidence

November! It used to be NaNoWriMo for writers all over the world. For years I told myself that next year, I’d do it, but I never did. The problem wasn’t time; at least, it wasn’t after I left my work as a history professor. It was confidence.

Image: Felix Fontaine, The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller (1862; Project Gutenberg, 2019), ‍https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/60045/images/i_frontis.jpg.