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I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.

You can't write just anything. Your story needs structure.

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.

I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.

Writing is an extremely rewarding and humbling process, and I've learned to go with it, that even if it feels absolutely impossible, I will find a way to tell the next story.

This is not necessarily the answer people want, but ultimately, I think writing is an amoral process. Your ultimate responsibility is to the truth of the story you're trying to tell.

You just write about things that happen.