Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.
Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
