The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.
The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.
When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought
I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.