I wish I had a time machine to go back and kick my own ***. Or at least try to talk some sense into myself. "Listen kid, this **** doesn't bode well. You're burning alive and headed for hell." Maybe writing is its own kind of time travel. Billy Pilgrim knows what I'm talking about. "Chin up child. Stop playing wild. I know you're trying to make your own style, but you'll lose more than you'll gain." But before I step in and turn the dial, my future self comes back to slap my hand. "Let it be," I'll say to me. One day you'll understand.