Just One Thing with Teddy Engs

Teddy Engs’ October issue flash “Somebody’s Been Stealing Mom’s Bike” is somewhere between a whodunnit and a family drama. Here he shares just one thing about the piece:

“I wrote the intro paragraph at work, and in a desperate attempt to not muck this one up, I immediately went into scenes of dialogue because I’m comfortable with dialogue. It came out easily. I didn’t do much revising. All the time I’m reading about these great writers revising to no end, but anything decent that I’ve written has come out pretty good on the first go. It just doesn’t happen very often. That’s the problem.”