Play-by-play: The Weird Things that Happen When You Write Under Time Pressure

Tick-tock…Quick, that deadline’s approaching!

Foolish me.

So, as I mentioned last week, I committed to produce a story just three days after Passover was over. I did prewrite before the holiday, and even had started a first draft in longhand (I often do). It was this surprisingly dark piece, written in second-person. A concerned family member was talking to “you,” and “you”(it becomes clear) are suffering from a clinical depression.

When I picked these materials back up after Passover had wrappe...