The Science of Writing
“You’re an oceanographer?” The librarian shakes his head, incredulous, his spectacles tossing a circle of sunlight on the floor between us. “I always knew I wanted to be a novelist,” I reply. “So, naturally,
I spent the first two decades of my adult life studying science and math.”
He laughs and then asks, “Ever wish you hadn’t become a scientist?”
That’s harder to
