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Writing is sort of putting a puzzle together halfway. Then, performing it has always been the completion of it. Once that happens, I'm feeling verbally communal with other people. It's out there and I feel so much better about it.

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once.

I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes, that I think I share with almost everybody.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

I've always written down how I feel.