If you could meet a historical writer, who would it be and why? I don’t think I’ve ever fully understood the “if you could meet any historical figure, who would it be?” question. I didn’t take it literally. When someone asked I never imagined hanging out with a writer. I just answered with someone I admired or who had influenced me. That’s what people really care about, right? But getting older, I’m starting to think other people answered based on who they actually thought would be fun to spend time with. Mind blown. My go-to answer to this question has almost always been Hemingway. If I ever went beyond interpreting…

You don’t have to read in your genre and you can absolutely make space to daydream about things not connected to your work-in-progress.