What’s the worst thing about writing?
Getting to know your own extraordinary procrastination habits.
What do you do when people ask “How’s your writing goin?”
Say “fine” and smile, unless it’s a fellow writer who is asking in which case I give them a face which says “you know exactly how hard it is.”
Describe your thoughts on writing (either your own or in general) using as many nouns as possible.
Paper plus pen or finger plus keyboard plus brain plus heart sometimes yields pleasant surprise. First draft plus the above plus time sometimes yields something worth keeping.
What is it about your discipline (fiction/poverty/nonfiction/other) that draws you to it?
It’s my quiet way of being in the conversation.
What’s your favorite word or words? What about it/them appeals to you?
The word that I find when I need it in a poem!
Bonus question: What is the perfect Pandora station for me to listen to right now. Interpret ‘me’ however you’d like.
Being a musician, I need silence to write, and I need to know the name of the piece when I’m listening to music, so no Pandora here.
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