Deep work and radical rest

Thoughts on magpies, writing habits, and storytelling in a second language.

My days these past few weeks have been all about writing, as you might have noticed.

I've written a few essays, but mostly I've been working on an old short story that I was planning on touching up, but ended up completely re-writing. Because I realized that my old writing sucked and was beyond rescue. 😂 So now, it's almost a brand new story, and almos…