Once it finally starts, the writing can proceed intensively for three to six hours. Price is a writer who edits as he goes. “Typically, what I’ll do is write a page, reread it, edit it, write half a page more, and then I’ll go back to the very first thing I wrote that morning . . . I don’t know whether I’m editing, reediting, or writing something new, but it’s kind of a creeping, incremental style of writing.
