You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing.
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
I get the beginning. I get the end. Then I write the middle. That's how I do it.
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.