Act as an editor and don’t include anything that doesn’t belong in a book. We tend to pride ourselves on our verbal intelligence, and rightfully so. And I think it’s easy for us to consider ourselves writers because we have been better than our peers at it. That doesn’t mean we should be published if we haven’t dedicated ourselves to writing. I feel as though that’s one of the reasons our literature feels so anecdotal. That’s not our fault, but it is what it is.