The Whale Belly

The most natural thing for me to write is an expository of a rumination I happen to be in the thick of. I don’t know what you call that really, musings on whatever seems most forefront in my mind. But I would like to write stories and create characters I can fall in love with.…

Teaching was a heartbreaking experience for me. I remember my own schooling as an overall negative experience, with all of my learning coming from stolen moments with a hidden book while the adults droned on about things I would later learn were largely misinformed or incomplete. And so when I got the urge to become…

How should a writer study? A writer trains by putting down words one after another over longer periods of time, or at the very least by sitting in a chair and maintaining focus. But this has to be a mostly unthinking process, like shooting baskets. It has to be a feeling experience more than a…