Sherrie Flick interviewed in Laurel Review

Thank you to Laurel Review and Luke Rolfes for taking the time to host this wonderful interview with Sherrie Flick, author of I Have Not Considered Consequences. Full of thoughtful questions surrounding both her process and her prose, Luke Rolfes prompts Flick to describe the nature of writing short fiction to readers.

On her writing of short stories, Flick humorously said:

With flash I feel at home and I love that I can draft a story and then reread it in one sitting—I love the compression and the containment and just that I know this kind of writing inside and out. With longer work, it is necessary for me to hurt my brain again and again trying to figure out what it’s about, how I can contain it, how to find an ending for this big mess of ideas. It’s exhausting in the same way (at least for me) that writing a novel is exhausting. I’m forced to take naps and super long walks. I have to talk with my friends about Edith Wharton and also tennis (there’s a tennis-loving husband in that story, too). I ask myself why am I writing this super long story that isn’t even about bears?

Check out the full interview here!