Life Ain't The Movies.

I Want Hard Stories, I Demand Them From Myself. Hard Stories Are Worth The Difficulty. It Seems To Me The Only Way I Have Forgiven Anything, Understood Anything, Is Through That Process Of Opening Up To My Own Terror And Pain And Reexamining It, Re-creating It In The Story, And Making It Something Different, Making It Meaningful - Even If The Meaning Is Only In The Act Of The Telling.

Why Write Stories? To Join The Conversation.

... Survival Is The Least Of My Desires.

It's Fun To Tease People About Where Fiction And Life Intersect.

That Was What Gospel Was Meant To Do - Make You Hate And Love Yourself At The Same Time, Make You Ashamed And Glorified.