Art is Love

Something I’ve come to learn is that as writers we can never truly stop comparing ourselves to other writers. We will always be chasing the market in some way. We’ll always be writing to a certain journal or writing for a certain audience. That’s, well, it’s inevitable after a while.

There are these glorious first few years as a new writer where everything is both sickeningly new and hard as well as fantastically new and exciting. We just do our art and try things out and it’s wonderfully...