The first note that I have for “Milk Blood Heat” is just “morbid girls.” That’s the first note. And then I realize that these things are connected, so I move them in a folder together and that’s how they become a story. At some point, my brain is making these connections by itself. And what I do is I collect images and ideas and things in my Notes folder on my phone. But I oftentimes will get a seed of a story while I’m watching movies or TV shows or something. I think I was watching something on Netflix, I don’t remember what it was. After I got to my MFA in Wisconsin, I didn’t write the whole first semester because I was just struggling so hard with imposter syndrome that I was like, “Oh, god, they’re going find out that I don’t belong here and they’re going to send me back.” But at some point, I had this idea for this story. Dantiel Moniz: No, it wasn’t the first one.
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