How to Write, 1

I'm talking to some beginning writers here in Seattle at the Clarion West workshop. It's a full schedule, with all the group workshopping of stories, one-on-one conferences, and reading the stories to be workshopped the next day. I'd kind of dreamed that, while I'm here, I might write a transreal story about teaching writing, but I feel a little too scattered for that today.

But I do want to write something—my way of getting my head together. So what I'll do is to work up some Q & A in this po