I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.

Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

My medium is prose, not the novel.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.