It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.
Micah PerksNice girls are not supposed to be hungry. They are not supposed to feed themselves or care about their own food. They're definitely not supposed to take food out of a child's mouth.
Micah PerksThere are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.
Micah PerksI'm really interested in the United States, what it means to be American - maybe because my father's an immigrant and my grandparents were immigrants, and also because I grew up so isolated from mainstream life, and it was such a total shock to leave the commune and, in a way, enter America for the first time when I was eleven - so I've always felt a little like an anthropologist - like, what is this strange place I find myself in, what are the rules here?
Micah Perks