I'm not the most detailed writer. I have a tendency to be more action-oriented vs. descriptive.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.
I don't really consider myself a writer.
Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.
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.
Writing is incidental to my primary objective, which is spinning a good yarn. I view myself as a storyteller more than a writer. The story - and hence the extensive research that goes into each one of my books - is much more important than the words that I use to narrate it.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
A writer is what I am.
I'm not a writer, but I'm very good at editing. That's my specialty. I can read something and tell you everything that's wrong with it and what's great about it and what needs to change, but it's hard for me to organize my thoughts.
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