![]() ![]() And I think figuring out what’s not working in someone else’s story, and what is working in someone else’s story can help you figure out how to make things work in your own story. And so that’s my way of saying that yes, to this day, my graduate students teach me things. I eventually I became a natural writer, but I had to learn how to do that. I was a natural critic, and I was a less natural writer. ![]() I didn’t necessarily think I could do any better, but I thought if other people were willing to try and risk failure, I should be willing to do the same. The way I became a fiction writer is that in my early to mid-20s, I was working at a magazine at the California Bay Area and one of my jobs at the magazine was to be the first reader of fiction manuscripts. ![]() I always had a good critical sense and I had to teach myself to become a more instinctive writer. And in some ways, with me, it was the opposite. I have writer friends who don’t want to teach and wouldn’t begin to know how to teach-it’s just not their thing. ![]() Joshua Henkin: I think you’re always learning up, down, and sideways. Mitzi Rapkin: As a writer and an artist, how much do other writers help you grow? And you’re also a teacher-how do you learn there? ![]()
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