WRITING: I wouldn’t call it therapy, exactly, because the focus is not on me. The focus, instead, is on using those internal conflicts to feed the work—to discover things I might not be able to discover any o (...)

Is writing a form of personal therapy? Are internal conflicts a creative force?

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I wouldn’t call it therapy, exactly, because the focus is not on me. The focus, instead, is on using those internal conflicts to feed the work—to discover things I might not be able to discover any other way. Writing is a lot like dreaming: when I’m deep into the story, unexpected things come up—things that reveal a lot about me, perhaps, but that also help the story resonate on an archetypal level that other people can relate to their own lives.