creative endeavor is keeping things from falli… doesn’t perfectly fit, well, that’s when I’ve kept in my head the advice of John Jeremiah Sullivan: “A fundamental law of storytelling is: withhold information. As the writer Paul Metcalf put it, ‘The only real work in creative endeavor is keeping things from falling together too soon.’” And so I tell myself, I’ll find a spot for this anecdote later. And if that anecdote is really good…