Why do you write?
I figure that with practice I might improve. Even if I don’t, I will persist. If in an entire book there is one sentence that works, I see it as proof of growth. Sometimes that sentence stares back at me as if it came from somewhere else.
Are you a vivid dreamer?
The mind continues to conjure with greater imagination than can be recovered when consciousness returns.
Where are you happiest?
Like most people, with those I love. Life can deliver some harsh surprises, but also sublime moments, delightful but unanticipatable. I look forward to the next
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