By Katie Tallo

I love letters, I love words, I love sentences and fragments of sentences. For me, writing is a mysterious dance between these fragments and my feelings – each continually tugging at the other for the truth.

Writing can be troubling and tenuous. It slips so easily from my grasp one minute, then wraps around me like a needy lover the next. It is inside me and yet exists beyond me. I try to wade deep into its flow, but often feel I’m only skimming the surface of something I don’t truly understand.

I do love it. That is why I am writing a novel … or was.

Here’s the thing; with a new puppy in my life, a household to maintain, and a documentary film to complete, I decided something had to... More...