We Have To Move Toward Specificity, Intelligence,

In Fiction, Conceptualizing, I've Found, Produces Dull And Over-controlled Text.

Anyone Can Be Shamed, But Feeling Guilt Requires Empathy Within.

I'm Such A Baby If I Even Get A Flu.

We Have That Illusion That We Are 'deciding' What To Make A Character Do, In Order To 'convey Our Message' Or Something Like That. But, At Least In My Experience, You Are Often More Like A River-rafting Guide Who's Been Paid A Bonus To Purposely Steer Your Clients Into The Roughest Possible Water.

To Me, The Process Of Writing Is Just Reading What I've Written And - Like Running Your Hand Over One Of Those Mod Glass Stovetops To Find Where The Heat Is - Looking For Where The Energy Is In The Prose, Then Going In The Direction Of That. It's An Exercise In Being Open To Whatever Is There.