I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.
I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.
It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.
In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.
Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
I write very slowly.