When Maile Told Me What Was Wrong With My Writing

Thoughts on

Last week I wrote the following:

I shared this thought with Maile, and she listened as I explained the “some kind of feeling” I had been having this year, how I wondered if I would ever write the novel I wanted to write, and then she paused, and she looked away, and she pursed her lips the way she purses her lips before saying something she doesn’t think…