I do not go down and sit in front of the computer and make myself write; that's not my style.
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I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.
I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.
I don't control my writing - it controls me.
I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited. I just write in the way that I write.
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
Not intending to be funny: I sit at the keyboard, put my fingers on the keys and go. To me, it's the real secret of writing. Put yourself in front of the screen or the blank sheet of paper and get to work.