character is dead, long live character

rachel cusk, starlings, the el*c*ion

a common starling. like a piece of sky!

I’ve been writing fiction. I have learned that it is easy to write bad fiction and very difficult to write good fiction, and it is worth slogging through the difficulty to write good fiction, because when it is good, it can feel like a gentle, careful, and nearly invisible friend who joins you on some long and unkn…