I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes - I'm often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that's a whole other thing - but let's say Woody Allen. But the more I've written, the more I've found that there is a deep well in me somewhere that wants to express things that I'm not going to find unless I write them myself.
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy.
I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
I write a lot in my head. I've never been driven to write things down.
I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.