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I am not going to lie to you; on Friday, I absolutely did not want to write. I had the kind of dread usually reserved for

Do you want to know how I know someone will never finish her book?  She tells me, “I am going to write it next quarter.”

By the time I graduated from college, I had completed three novels. One was a political fairytale (I live in D.C., okay?); one was a

A surprising question that I hear a lot at parties (besides the D.C.-standard “What do you do?) is what do you wish writers knew? In

In graduate school, I met one of the most magical professors. Not only was he a great teacher, but he was a wonderful human. When