the why in writing

Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you’re not.

Writing is a great way to excavate an emotional reaction and find the why behind it.

The one practice I kept was writing. It made the cut because I can’t deny how many good things in my life have come as a result of my putting words out into the world. It also felt like a respite: one area where I wasn’t skeptical of my identity. I’m at my most courageous on the page because interrogating my feelings with words feels justified and

You cannot write your words without living them. You cannot share your words without writing them.

All novels, short stories, and plays, and most poems, are about human transformation. The subject of the novel is the human spirit and psyche—how the characters interact in their relationships with other souls and with the world in general.