When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.
I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.
When I'm working, I'm working and I'm focused on that day's work.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
I work all day, morning and afternoon, just about every day. If I sit there like that for two or three years, at the end I have a book.
If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.
The thing I'm always trying to do when I write is hit that sweet spot where the book both keeps you up late at night, and yet a week after you've finished, it still pops back into your head.
When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground, and why I won't have another book finished by next week.
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.