My telling people I was going to be a writer and then actually doing that is kind of like when you meet someone, immediately forget their name, and are in the awkward position of introducing them to someone else, so you go, “This is . . . Steve,” and Steve is like, “Haha. The only person who calls me Steve is my dad; usually, I have everyone call me Stephen. But yeah, it’s Steve, Stephen.” And you’re like, “That’s not all your dad and I have in common. We both like beer,” and then you immediately walk away because words aren’t your friend anymore.
