My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.
When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out, and I'm just writing it down.
You have to go where the book leads you.
I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."
For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
Creativity works on a winding, circuitous route.
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
