Accelerating Power

The preliminary results are in.

It used to take me weeks and weeks to write a short story. Three times now I’ve managed to compress that process down into a handful of days. It’s an incredible feeling to dive deep into a character’s head, finish the story, thenlet it go. Liberating. I’ve been trying to do that since the end of 2013 when I doubled down on writing fiction.

This is a good reminder not to take the accelerating power of a good workshop for granted–and that could apply equally in a...