“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. I always sort of half-know where I’m going.”155 Some days involve more revision than others. “Sometimes all I did was fix and fiddle,” he says, “and some days I just wrote great gouts of original stuff.”156
This is me to a T, holy
cow!
