I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what I'm hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
I'm always most interested in writing about things that I don't understand.
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
I am a writer of fragments.
Oh, I do a tremendous amount of rewriting. I just obsessively rewrite. Although sometimes there are sections, sometimes you're just lucky and a paragraph will just kind of come out. And that's great. But that's not ordinary in a day's work.
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.