You definitely have to look at the publishing process as an industry and a business at some point even though you may be largely focused on the creative aspect of doing the work of writing.
I think it’s really important that as writers we not take ourselves too seriously, not take on that mantle of importance and mystery because the narrative of life also tells us that “pride goeth before a fall.
The author and beloved professor discusses how “to write” is a verb (and not an identity), the overwhelming versus the manageable, and what chaos has the ability to deliver.
