Goals and Rewards

My interest in checklists started about ten years ago when I read an article by Atul Gawade in the New Yorker. In it, he tells how Dr. Peter Pronovost decided to make a checklist to tackle a single problem—the problem of line infections.

If you‘ve ever taken a class with me, you know that I talk a lot about Fate. Not because I believe that everything happens for a reason—it’s because the understanding we take from the events that happen to us is the essence of storytelling. 

Writers are often plagued with doubts about their work. Over the past several days, many wonderful writers I know have expressed that they feel their work is unimportant or irrelevant to current events.