Do You Like Writing?

Jay Parini: I think that's absolutely like sort of the core of the inactive character. That a character has to make choices going after what they want. Those choices should lead to worse circumstances, right? He says he is one of the rare writers who likes to write. Parini: It could be frustrating, you know, with the plotting stages of it can be maddening. But we don't want to be mean to ourselves. We want to let ourselves out.