Storm coming in (a how I write post)

It's all different now — the way I write, the way I think about writing.  I had had goals, once — four pages a day, say, on writing days.  Now it works like this:  I spend a few hours each new scene day simply dreaming.  The next day I scribble thoughts and lists.  The next day I type some bad sentences into the computer, knowing that the next day, the fourth day, I'll write the scene in a way that will allow me to move on toward dreaming the next scene (though when I print the entire book, I...