I Love the Short Story

Strong Short Story

"Sometimes you might think of TV as writing a long novel, but it's kind of not.  You have to do a very strong short story to start with."

Short Stories Are Tiny Windows

Worrying That I Wasn't Being a Writer

"I spent a lot of time worrying that I wasn't being a writer in the correct way. I don't write every day—I write when I'm burning with an idea. I don't really want to write novels—I prefer stories. These are temperamental issues."

Get to Know Your Characters 2

"We get to know our characters the way we get to know the other people in our lives: by spending time with them, by seeing how they interact with others and how they function under pressure, by learning how they see themselves and how they want to be seen."

wasted a lot of years

"I wasted a lot of years writing short stories when I clearly should have been writing novels because that’s what I loved."