Memory Narrativises Itself.

It Is My Belief That We As Human Beings Have A Need To Tell Stories - I Think It's Evolutionary. So You Can Think Of The Short Story As A Literary Form, Or You Can Instead Think Of Stories.

I Dont Make Notes For Myself Because I Either Lose Them Or They Make No Sense To Me At All. I Once Found A Piece Of Paper With The Note: Everything. Apparently I Made A Note To Myself Not To Forget Everything!

There Are Studies That Have Shown That We Make Decisions, Ethical And Otherwise, Based On The Way We Imagine Ourselves As Characters In The Stories Of Our Lives. In Other Words, If We Imagine Ourselves Brave Or Crazy Or Open, We're More Likely To Make Decisions In A Given Situation Based On How We Imagine Ourselves, Whatever The Facts May Be.

It's So Internalized, The Way Your Mind Works In Relation To Anything - It's A Process, But Then It Isn't. It's Working All The Time.

I Want To Make Money, And I Would Like To Have A Lot Of Money, But I Still Believe That The Only Reason To Write Is That Somehow It Will Make Something Or Somebody Better.