Write What You Want to Know: Building Cultures of Curiosity in Lit

Over my writing life, I’ve curated six guidelines for myself (or “writin’ rules”), which I’m thankful that others have found useful at times as well. They are as follows:

1. Write what you want to know.

2. When writing another context, always elevate its own storytellers. Be a megaphone to the lesser heard, not a "voice to the voiceless".

3. Let any given story go.…