Joshua Kay
Writer, reader, hiker, cyclist, husband, dad. I teach & practice child welfare law and mediation at University of Michigan Law School.
Making Stuff Up
Writing fiction and finding myself, or is it the other way round?Indiana Jones: “I’m going after that truck.” Sallah: “How?” Indiana Jones: “I don’t know. I’m making this up as I go.” Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) When I was a kid, up through middle school and into high school, I wrote a lot. Short pieces. Long pieces. Articles for the school paper. Stuff for classes. Stuff just for me. Some was fiction, some was not. Most of the fiction I wrote at the time was short stories, but when I was about fifteen I completed a sci-fi novel that went on for over 250…Joshua Kay5 min read