I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.
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.
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.
I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.
I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.