Jason welcomes memoirist Kelly S. Thompson for a free-ranging ramble about mentoring & being mentored, shitty first drafts, lingering in the ugly, basic training of the mind, misanthropic penguins, cavemen fighting spacemen, bull terriers named Ham, & Kelly's new book, "Still, I Cannot Save You." Music by the angelic DJ Max in Tokyo (www.youtube.com/channel/UC2U1n0V9JT89-tH2fNubDMg). Many thanks to Wayne Emde for the artwork & Joe Emde for help with the intro. Join the early sh*t chat at https://www.facebook.com/WRTESpodcast & on Instagram @writersreadtheirearlyshit. Many thanks, wherever & whoever & however you are, for listening.