When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
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When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.