Larry McMurtry's memoir about writing.

Yesterday I read about a third of McMurtry's memoir.  I really should have started with reading the first memoir in the series, but I got so excited after I heard the interview on NPR with him that I ordered this book without giving a thought to sequence.
I'm not exactly a fan of McMurtry's....I never even read any of his books.  I have seen some of the movies that were adapted from his books, including Lonesome Dove, but what interested me the most is a man that never really had any intention or aspirations of being a writer actually becoming a writer, a successful, incredibly prolific writer.
Reading about writing helps me to write; it gives me courage and inspiration while also helping to put things, writing, writing relationships, publishing, goals, into perspective.  I wish that I had been more productive this weekend with writing and editing, but I went to a cookout on Friday night that was a little too enjoyable and Saturday I volunteered for the public radio and then spent the rest of the day and evening laying on the couch trying to recover from too little sleep and too many beers.  But Sunday was amazingly productive in a tiny stretch of time.  I did some intense editing for a short story, one that I actually just got reviewed by my lovely writing friends Alex and Sandra, and I came up with a couple more ideas for some short stories.
I'm excited about these ideas for shorts even though they don't fit into the collection and I see this as a reoccuring problem - the excitement of starting something new and different and the abandonment of a project or goal.
But I'm working on it, and those ideas are just that for now, until I wrap this current collection up.
I'm adding a few books to my always expanding reading list:

• Now Let Us Priase Famous Men  - James Agee, Walker Evans
• Sometimes a Great Notion -  Ken Kesey
•  Sailor Song - Ken Kesey