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I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.

I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.

With Groo, I try to do one story every book. Sometimes the stories are better if they go a little longer, and I choose to do it in four issues.

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to offload all of my stories. But it's also not as creatively fulfilling.

I always write three or four projects at the same time. They're stories that I want to tell, and usually I dump them unfinished for the next one in order not to get too cornered and depressed about it.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.