As I get ready to send my novel manuscript to my two readers (a writing friend and a friend of a friend), I am (slightly) faltering in my confidence in my work. Perhaps it was having to figure out a funky formatting problem. Maybe I’ve stared at the screen-pages-screen too much. Maybe it’s because I’m normally not one to write with too many flourishes and yet, I am finding tons of last-minute places to add a flourish or two. (Yikes!)

Anyhow, in a creative break, I’m finding solace in skimming the Bartlett’s Book of Quotations. I just ran across the Lucretius (99 to 55 B.C.) quotation:

“Nothing can be created from nothing.”

So, does the same hold in the positive? Something can be created from something? Or is it a combination: Something can be created from nothing? Which one works for you?

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