Offspring were a joy or a shame, but still the crown of their elders, nature's unpredictable creatures.
Achy ObejasIn journalism, if there's a hole in your story you figure out a way around it because you've got a 4 p.m. deadline. It's a neat skill to have but it's deadly for literature. In literature, you need to stare at that hole, not ignore it. You need to figure it out.
Achy ObejasBoth childbirth and abortion are medical procedures but neither is an illness, and sometimes they're both treated as such.
Achy ObejasI feel possessive about stories I write in Spanish and so I usually end up translating those into English myself.
Achy ObejasThis is going to sound nuts but it took me forever to figure out why I'd stopped writing poetry - I mean, I went about a decade where I wrote very little poetry and I thought it was because I was doing a weekly blog. And then when we moved, I reconfigured my writing desk. The previous one had had very little space to write by hand. And suddenly, the poetry was gushing!
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