Seven Books Before Twenty: Why I Could Not Stop

Essay

I am nineteen. I have seven published books. People ask how. The real answer is that I could not stop. Not as discipline, though that is part of it, but as necessity. The writing was the only place where the interior life had room to be what it actually was. Each book came from a specific season and a specific question I was living inside. Seven books means seven rooms I went through. It is not a ceiling. It is a current count.