Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
'Sound of My Voice' had been written before 'Another Earth.'
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.'
No matter what you write, it's a matter of putting words in a certain order so that the reader will be interested in what you're writing.
At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.
