Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Not entirely. I remember when I wrote it. It was a short story about a man wrongly accused and his struggle to be believed. Now that I think of it, that was strongly representative of my own life.
What is your writing process?
No process. It might be a mistake not to have one. I can write linearly or I can write piecemeal. The processes differ a great deal. When I write linearly I have to keep in mind where I'm going. It's like a long drive— you know your destination but anything can happen along the way.
Writing piecemeal, I just write a paragraph, or a scene. Later I'll write another completely apart from the other. It's more like getting lost. I'm not sure of anything. My focus is wholly on that part of the work. It's not much like work at all, really. Imagination run amuck. The work comes when I try to sew all those random paragraphs together.
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