Dale Wiley

I tend to "binge" write. Because I have a fairly intense day job, working as a lawyer for homeowners working on avoiding foreclosure, I can't write every day. I work on letting an idea percolate and then getting in a rhythm where I can write several nights in a row.

It doesn't take me a long time to write. I'm composing all the time. I like to have several ideas percolating, and then have one come to the forefront.

I read from before I can really remember. I certainly remember having real favorites in grade school - "From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" was my favorite, and a biography of Bobby Orr that I probably read twenty times.

I guess from listening to my parents I was writing almost before I could read. I've put this down from time to time and not written, but it's always been in my blood. I have boxes and boxes of stories and things that I still find from time to time. It's fun to get it out and cringe a little ...