There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm so physically exuberant, it was extra hard to sit still at the desk and put in the hours that you need to put in to write.
I write a thousand words a day, and I always stop in the middle of a scene or thought, and it makes it easy to pick up on the next day.
When I got out of college, I had to make a living, and I started writing for magazines, and it felt like the perfect job.
Writing, to me, is like kayaking a river. You are paddling down, and you come to a walled-off canyon, and you make a sharp turn, and you don't know what's around the corner. It could be a waterfall, it could be a big pool. The narrative current carries you. You're surprised, and you're thrilled, and sometimes you're terrified.
I just love when the learning curve is steep. And I love being in nature, in the wild.
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
