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The author of Short War ponders the ways research can deepen a fiction project—and how to know when enough is enough.

“Trust yourself; if you can manage that, the writing will come.” —Heather McCalden, author of The Observable Universe: An Investigation

“Growth shouldn’t only happen on the page.” —Zefyr Lisowski, author of Girl Work

“I thought a book could be carved out of a block of poems, but instead it had to start from blank space.” —Cindy Juyoung Ok, author of Ward Toward

“For every book, different literary angels perch on my shoulder.” —Tomás Q. Morín, author of Where Are You From: Letters to My Son

“I would write the scene and shake my head in disbelief that a character wanted to do that.” —Phillip B. Williams, author of Ours

The writer behind Choose This Now, a novel-in-stories, introduces some of the journals that first published her work, including Pigeon Pages and Joyland.