Molly: I will say, I do recommend that everyone try the non-chronological form of writing, even if it causes a lot of headaches in the post-production phase. For some people it can be helpful to write about what they’re most interested in at one particular moment, and then to figure out the chronology later.

Kate: One of the best backwards definitions of happiness is from Walker Percy in The Moviegoer . He says, basically, that despair is when you feel like you are not *onto* something. I think happiness is when— even if only occasionally— you feel like you're *onto* something—you're pursuing something in life, or in your thoughts.