Abby Geni on Teaching the Instinctual

First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing is a weekly show featuring in-depth interviews with fiction, nonfiction, essay writers, and poets, highlighting the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft, and the literary arts. Hosted by Mitzi Rapkin, First Draft celebrates creative writing and the individuals who are dedicated to bringing their carefully chosen words to print as well as the impact writers have on the world we live in. In this episode, Mitzi talks to Abby Geni about her new short story collection, The Body Farm . Subscribe and download the episode , wherever you get your podcasts! From the episode: Mitzi Rapkin: You seem in some ways, like a detective. You’re following your scent. It seems like, as a writer you’re just kind of following what interests you and seeing where it goes. And then you have this sort of maybe fugue state where you’re writing. How do you teach writing when it’s so instinctual for you? Abby Geni: Yeah, I love that question. And I’ve thought about it a lot. I love teaching for many reasons. I love seeing what my students are doing. I love hearing how they think, and I love learning how to articulate what it is that I do silently in a room in my fugue state. You know, people will say, How did you structure this? And I’ll think, how did I structure that? You know, people say, How did you find this description? And I’ll think, Okay, well, how did I do that? And I’ve come to so many realizations about my own process that I didn’t know I knew. So, there’s something about the articulation of a process that, up until that point, has remained unspoken. You know, it’s something that I’m doing. I’m making writing without paying attention to how I’m making writing. And so, teaching makes me think about how I made it, and that teaches me something as well. MR: For people who might be really interested in writing and maybe they have a similar process, but they don’t know what to do next, […]

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