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This week I am interviewing Sonia Huber, a prolific and award winning writer in many genres, but primarily in creative nonfiction. Her book of essays on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System was named a best book of 2018 by The New Statesman. Her other books include Love and Industry (2023), Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto (2022) and Supremely Tiny Acts (2021). Her essays have been included in the Best American Essays series numerous times. And she is a professor in the department of English at Fairfield university and in the Fairfield low residency MFA program. Despite all these places where Sonya's work has appeared, I found her on Substack, where she publishes a newsletter called Nuts and Bolts with Sonya.\nWe covered:\nWhy and how Sonya works on multiple books at one time (\u201cmaybe because I\u2019m super distractible\u201d)\nNot being afraid to follow a tangent\nHaving zero expectations for your writing output, and just having fun exploring the things you\u2019re curious about or mulling over\nHow much \u201ctiny steps add up to bigger works\u201d\nHow farm-sitting goats pays as much or better than writing\nThe book about writing that was written in 1938 that played a huge role in Sonya\u2019s approach to writing\nSitting down for one hour in the mornings even if you\u2019re bored or uninspired to \u201cunsnarl one tiny knot I\u2019ve made for myself\u201d\nStrategies for keeping your various ideas accessible, if not exactly organized\nUsing writing as a tool for dealing with chronic pain\n\nFor full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices