Cycles of crying, excitement, and ice cream: 4 questions about my writing process

Remember back in the day (by which I mean the 80s and 90s, for all you whippersnappers out there) when you’d get a carefully-folded piece of notebook paper in your locker and you immediately knew you were screwed? Chances were that the contents said something like, “If you don’t pass this on to 10 people, you’ll never have sex and you’ll be run over by a Mack Truck by the end of the year.” And you dutifully passed it along because youreallyreallyreallywanted to bang that hot tennis player who...