Why Do You Write?

I’d like to know why you write. I’ll tell you why I write. First and most importantly, I don’t write to cope with the voices in my head and nor do I write because my life depends on it and I have this incredibly deeply-held need to write or...

Craft vs. Readability

So my mother-in-law is in town to help out with things as we adjust to life with a newborn baby. She reads a lot and is often willing to discuss what she reads. We recently talked about a few books and an issue came up that kind of crystallized some thinking that...