It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If there's going to be another Misfits record, I'd probably have to write the stuff.
I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction.
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
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.
As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
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.
What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up.
Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.