How Did You Get Started as a Writer?

Sasha Coppola: My early creative life was pretty miserable. I went to school for comparative literature till i be a great writer by studying the great writers and imitating their tricks. The average writing day for about six or seven years wat a lot of chain smoking and giving myself gastric ulcers. In my mid twenties, i had this sort of flip. Everything started going quite well. Within a couple of years s i won gold national magazine award, silver national magazine award. I got a book published. And so there's a really powerful bi modal distribution in my life between miserable, non producing artist an trurly happy, consistently producing artist.