Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each video is a portrait of the artist as a beginner—and a look at the creative process, in all its joy, abjection, delusion, and euphoria.

Today’s featured writer is Sheila Heti, whose first collection, The Middle Stories, appeared in 2001. Earlier this week, we had Tao Lindiscuss Bed,his 2007 debut.

“My First Time” will return with a new set of authors, including Ben Lerner and Donald Antrim, in a few months. In the meantime, you can watch the first set of “My First Time” interviews, published in May:

• Christine Schutton Nightwork, her first collection of stories
• Branden Jacobs-Jenkinson his play Neighbors
• Gabrielle Bellon The Book of …series, her early cartoons
• J. Robert Lennonon his debut novel, The Light of Falling Stars