Writing

I’ve been writing for a long time. I’ve written two terrible novels, countless scrapped short stories, and a mitt-full of emotive poetry. Sometime in 2008, I toyed with the idea of giving it up forever: I spent a month of not allowing myself to even consider sitting down to write. I realized two things: I want to write, even despite the fact that I may never make money from it or a name for myself. I love to write. It’s what I do.

Since then, I’ve been writing at least one morning a week, and instead of trying to finish some big project, I’ve given myself permission to just learn the craft. And learning the craft turns out to have been a much more interesting and fun way to write than the way I did previously, which involved mad scribbling after epiphanies.

Stories:

“Dying Media,” third-prize winner in the gritLit competition and forthcoming in a chapbook.

more publications to come, I hope