Kindle Notes & Highlights
Ever since then I’ve been a Goldilocks writer: the first draft has too much research material, the second has too little, but the third draft will be just right.
Basically, I write the story I would like to read. I write for an audience of one—myself.
The edge is always more interesting than the center. I recall Michael Connelly and I were at some conference and he was talking about writing. He took a cup and put it on the center of the table. “It’s not very interesting now,” he said, and kept moving it toward the edge to the point where it was about to fall over and shatter. And then he said, “Well, now I have your attention. Now it’s interesting.”
I’d simply say: Write. Like most things in life, it’s a verb before it’s a noun.
The more you try to control creativity, the less successful you’re going to be.
The most important thing is I’ve learned to operate out of shadow. I’ve learned to understand and accept that about myself. The term is part of Jungian psychology involving the juxtaposition of shadow and ego.
when I write, it’s the most exciting thing in the world because I’m doing something that’s never been done. There are twenty-six letters, and you try to pen a sentence that’s never been written before. I think that’s phenomenal.
