Status Updates From How To Become A Writer

"You spend too much time slouched and demoralized. Your boyfriend suggests bicycling. Your roommate suggests a new boyfriend... The only happiness you have is writing something new, in the middle of the night, armpits damp, heart pounding, something no one has yet seen. You have only those brief, fragile, untested moments of exhilaration when you know: you are a genius.” 😂❤️

insist... that you are interested in the music of language, that you are interested in -- in -- syllables, because they are the atoms of poetry, the cells of the mind, the breath of the soul.

A short story that mentions recombinant DNA and Herman Melville in two consecutive paragraphs. Just my luck.