Planning to write is not writing. Outlining ...researching ...talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substan…