Super grateful to Justin Maurer for interviewing me for Yay! L.A. Magazine.  Justin is a writer and former frontman for Clorox Girls, who made one of my all-time favorite records, and is always on the level. An excerpt:

What advice would you give to aspiring writers who may be struggling with writers block?

Read. Read your favorite writer. Read your favorite writer’s favorite writer. Read everything your writing teacher has ever written (especially if you don’t like your writing teacher). Read poetry. Read plays. Read comic books. Read toothpaste ingredients. The only thing you have no business reading is the biographies of famous writers unless you are a budding biographer of someone famous. Drive around town and look at all of the words and remind yourself that every book, movie, TV show, commercial, billboard, bus bench, graffiti, radio jingle, menu, soda can, everything that has words on it was written by someone and there is a place in all that madness for you.