I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
I never know what I'm going to write next, and when I think I do I usually turn out to be mistaken.
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires.
I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.
If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.