Interviews and Reviews
The Idaho Review
"There’s no such thing as failed writing. Every page you write is just a mile on the odometer until you get to where you’re going. None of it is ever lost."
The Hemingway Review
The Idaho Review
republished with BookBrowse
"Don’t wait for something major. Celebrate every victory, whether you finished writing a chapter or even just did some free-writing for thirty minutes. This slowly strengthens the part of the brain that’s responsible for validating your own work without needing recognition from other people. And once you’re writing for your own pleasure, no one can stop you."
The Idaho Review
"We all have a voice inside us as writers. One voice is saying write, I can’t live without writing, I need to write write write. And the other one is an inner critic who is just so, so dangerous. If there’s a way you can put that critic to the side every day—even if it’s just for thirty minutes or an hour—then that’s great."
The Idaho Review
"Tell your story, no matter how you feel it will be perceived. Don’t try to make it this broadly appealing thing. Have faith that there will be someone out there who will relate to what you wrote."
The Idaho Review
"Literary community is such a beautiful thing, especially since the work of writing can be so lonely and isolating otherwise. But it really doesn't have to be."
The Idaho Review
"There's so much rejection out there in the world of the arts. You have to love the writing process enough to be able to deal with that rejection, because it will come. It'll happen. And you have to just keep sending it out."
The Idaho Review
"You are not just a productive machine. You are not just defined by labor or output. You’re allowed to nourish yourself with companionship, and inspiration, and reading."
The Idaho Review
"You can’t let rejection stop you. Not just in the writing world, but in the art world. It’s a lot of no all the time. That can be hard, especially on young writers who don’t hear it as not this, not right now. They hear it as no to you. No to your work all the time. That’s not the case. Not everybody is your reader, but there’s going to be people who want to see your work."