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I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

She looks like someone I want to know, or maybe even be.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

I had this idea that I could hire myself out as a person to go on archeological digs and dig, without any training! I actually wrote to a number of archeology departments and offered up my services.

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me.

A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.