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You have to make one thing a priority and achieve balance that way, rather than trying to do everything all at once.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.
There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.
I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.
That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.
