Daily Diary: Trying to Write a Novel

8:30 AM: Who am I kidding? SNOOZE. 8:40 AM: SNOOZE. 8:50 AM: SNOOZE. 9:00 AM: SNOO– Oh, I have a text. Have you started your novel yet? “Yes. Got up early. So much inspiration at daybreak!” 9:15 ...

15 Beginnings Of An Essay I Will Never Write

1. My mom used to take me to her psychiatrist appointments. I’d bring Pogs. I was nine. She’d leave me in the waiting room by a wooden bench and a table covered in back issues of The New Yorker. I was always...