Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

Different genres allow me to not feel so hemmed in by my own voice, tics, style.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.

You learn to exploit genre for the more important things - to my mind - like story, character, image, language.