I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don't need to know. You could just write and discover where you're going. And it's a great deal of fun.
I never write with constraints, which I don't know if it is a good thing or a bad thing.
I write because it feels good, and I don't have a deadline, and I don't have people telling me what they want me to write. Maybe if I did, I wouldn't be very good at it.
I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.
I never know what I am writing. The moment you know what you're writing, you're writing nothing worth reading.
I really don't keep an outline; I don't organize in any way. I just write.
Undergraduate writers seem to be, in a way, more open to letting themselves just write.
Joe Lansdale is one of the few writers able to write in whatever genre or mode he wants on any particular day. How? He doesn't ask permission. He just steps in, out-writes everybody in the room.
I think when you're writing anything you should never be thinking about hardcore genre fans.
