As a reader, I had not truly understood how much happened off the page of the story. Most authors masterfully slip in backstory without disturbing the flow of the narrative. When I became I writer, I realized how much "pre writing" has to happen in order to understand the motives and decisions the POV character... Continue Reading →
How Bored was Thoreau: a short story I wrote while hiking through the woods. And yes, this is pretty much what I do all the time. Every moment has a story I am making up.