I'm definitely a seat-of-the-pants writer.
I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.
I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.
If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I'm doing.
You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.
Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
Allen Ginsburg was wrong about a lot of things, but especially when he said, 'First thought, best thought.'
