Make to Know

As Louis Pasteur famously put it, “chance favors the prepared mind.”

“I am always unclear when people say they love writing but don’t like editing. To me they are the same.

Watson compares her process in both life and work with dadaist experiments “where you take an image, cut it up, throw it on the floor and then make something of the chaos that has landed. There’s a system to it, but it allows for confusion and failure and all this other stuff to happen.” She and I grapple together to understand the nature of what t

I spend a lot of time trying to think about the difference between myself and some other person and how we wind up in the places we do.”

Having found an entry into this world of uncertainty, what then? What does the writer build within that space that moves the project forward?

simply began to write about a character,” Stern tells me. “I’m always observing people, reading people, thinking about people, and trying to understand.

“The antecedent stages to Satori: quest, search, ripening and explosion. The

I’m trying to get at the parts that I think are amazing…the things I care about.”

is, for her, a source of some of her deepest questions.