“Most [failed writing] that I see, the reason the shit doesn’t work is because there is no play in it. There is nothing in it that we would call the human. There’s no play. There’s too much control. You’ve eliminated the story because instead of listening to what the story is, you put your own wishes and your own dreams on it…There is the story and you’ve kind of got to be open to where the story is going to take you.” –Junot Diaz