Trust in your stories. Learn to hear their wisdom. Feel the energy of the words. Know when it is time to lay the book down and pick up another. Choose one with fresh pages and not a single word written. One with space to grow a new story. A new understanding. Write...
Things one cannot have too many/too much of: Books waiting to be read, vintage cut-up band tees, hidden chocolate bars, crushes that bring you all the way alive, badass boots made for walking, trips to the ocean, daydreams of magic, playlists for each singular mood,...
Some books, some authors, open up doors of possibility for me as a writer. They break down what I know of form and composition and the rules of telling true stories and reassemble them into something novel and unfamiliar before handing them back to me to say “here,...
