Interview-in-excerpts

I did an interview using excerpts from Naked Summer for my answers—something the website was doing at the time, but they decided not to share my responses, or lost the damn thing, or whatever. After unearthing the interview in a folder today, I decided to share it here.

1.    What is writing like?

The pole flexed and bent, but he got nowhere. He waded into deeper water, still winding the line, but the fish didn’t budge.

2.    What isn’t writing like?

Then all three of us left for the bar.

3.    When you do it, why?

Above all, he’d keep quiet and to himself and try to forget this, and work to be different than the adults he knew. Nothing had been decided, he reminded himself. He couldn’t give up just yet.

4.    When you don’t, why?

I could have made better decisions, like quitting my job and finding another kind of living. I felt as pinned as the downed phone lines along the road, caught under a sequence of bad choices.