Millie Tullis

I love that you started with obsessions. As a kid, I did not walk through Pinto Cemetery thinking, “I’m going to come back to this.” But something about that memory and that moment did stick with me. It’s interesting—our obsessions as writers, what grabs and won’t let go. Memories and research often provide starting points for me as a writer. Sometimes, after writing and thinking about a memory, I can see clearly why it mattered to me—why I remember this moment when so many other things are forgotten. Other connections stay a little more mysterious, or onion-like—there can be all these layers of “why” beneath an obsession, a memory. You can keep writing into it over and over and uncovering different things. 

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