What good are insights? They only make things worse.
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.
Donโt complain, donโt explain.
All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.