I prefer the plain and simple sentences: the ones that you don't notice because you're so interested in what's happening to the people and events that the sentences are creating.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.
I like it when I can hear directly from the writer: what they're seeing, what they're envisioning, and what their intention is.
I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
You just write about things that happen.
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.
I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.