My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
Every book is like starting over again. I've written books every way possible - from using tight outlines to writing from the seat of my pants. Both ways work.
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.
When I know I'm going to work on a cover, I practically run to the computer! After working with words for so long, it's lovely to do something that's creative yet also the professional equivalent of scribbling in your own coloring book.
My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.
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