The Art of Writing is the Art of Applying the Seat of the Pants to the Seat of the Chair One of the first online writing groups I belonged to was called A2S. This stood for “Ass to Seat,” and was our cheeky nod to Mary Heaton Vorse’s famous quote: “The Art of Writing is the Art of Applying the Seat of the Pants to the Seat of the Chair” While hunting for the quote’s origin, I came across a Suite 101 article by Vickie Britton in which she explains that: “This quote is attributed to Mary Heaton Vorse (1874-1966),…