No one is calling me. I can’t check the answering machine because I have been here all this time. If I go out, someone may call while I’m out. Then I can check the answering machine when I come back in.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

I would recommend, definitely, developing a 'day job' that you like - don't expect to make money writing!

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

To be simple, I would say a story has to have a bit of narrative, if only "she says," and then enough of a creation of a different time and place to transport the reader.