Writing Process

Sarah Layden, author of the forthcoming novel TRIP THROUGH YOUR WIRES, invited me to participate in the My Writing Process blog tour. Thank you, Sarah.

I’m supposed to invite a few more writers to keep this thing going, but everyone I’ve thought to ask has already done it. So I’ve given up. The buck stops here. (Really, if you have a buck, it should go here.) 

1) What are you working on? 

A literary novel—a family drama. 
A crime novel.
A linked story collection anchored by a novella.
Four comic book projects.

2) How does your work differ from others of its genre? 

Which work? Which genre(s)? I can say that they all use words in deliberate sequence.

3) Why do you write what you do?

Because I want to be famous, make a lot of money, and die happy.

4) How does your writing process work?

I work on one project. And then I get an idea for another project in progress, or maybe an idea for a new project. So I do that for a while. And then I think, holy crap, I need to get back to that other project I was working on. And the result is that I have a lot of projects (see question #1) in various stages of disarray.

But if I ever get my shit together, watch out.