I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.
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I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.
The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
I'm very aware when I share a stage with other writers that I'm much less driven than they are. I don't wake up in the middle of the night, pregnant with paragraphs. I don't suffer for my text twenty-four hours a day.
For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
I love it when people travel to see one of my works, and I always make time to meet and talk with them.
I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.
The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.