Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

I have way too much going on, as usual, but fortunately it's all good stuff. I'm not complaining.

I can think of plenty of writers whose work I revere and whose lives I know little about.

Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

Getting tired of sitting, staring at my computer screen, day after day, where everyone is two-dimensional, reduced to an avatar photo, status updates, or maybe some carefully curated vacation photos. There's something exhausting about that after a while. I found myself wanting to hear voices.

I can only imagine the quiet horror that people must endure when they meet me in person.