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Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book, and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again, and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done.
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.
More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.
