mid-year, in the year of questions

Thinking today of the Hurston quote about there being years that ask questions and years that answer. The last several months have definitely felt like a series of questions about motivation, about purpose, about skill and craft. I’ve written quite a lot, but very little of it has properly gelled, and I was so focused on maintaining my momentum and getting work out in circulation that it took me a while to see what was happening.

Part of it was trying new things: experiments in voice, structu...