Why do you write?

I figure that with practice I might improve. Even if I don’t, I will persist. If in an entire book there is one sentence that works, I see it as proof of growth. Sometimes that sentence stares back at me as if it came from somewhere else.

Are you a vivid dreamer?

The mind continues to conjure with greater imagination than can be recovered when consciousness returns.

Where are you happiest?

Like most people, with those I love. Life can deliver some harsh surprises, but also sublime moments, delightful but unanticipatable. I look forward to the next