I love writing. But if I’m honest, writing itself isn’t the thing that keeps me coming back. What keeps me coming back is story. Writing is the nuts and bolts that get the words down. But story—story is the beating heart of writing. Stories have given me so much: they’ve taught me how to be brave, how to get through hard times, and how to be a good human. And the best kind of stories? The sticky ones. You know the ones I mean: the stories that leave you a little restless, a l