Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
I don't know if I remember the first story I wrote, but I do remember the first book I started to write and never finished. It was a book about a 16 year old boy who is killed in a car accident and is reborn with all his memories in a hospital across town. I was, no surprise, 16 when I started writing it. I think I got maybe 5 pages in. The idea of what consciousness is, or might be, has always been a part of my writing.
What is your writing process?
Generally for shorter works I have an idea, and I sit down and see what spews out of me. Then I adjust and edit it for the rest of my life. For anything longer than 15 pages I do a lot more planning. Character sheets, outline, synopsis, the whole Magilla.
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