Travis asked Tommy Wallach:

I find your mind captivating and your writing lyrical. What is your writing process?

Tommy Wallach Well, first off, thanks!

My process is very simple, I'm afraid. I come up with ideas all the time, but I don't write them down. I know whichever ones stick in my head over many months are the ones worth pursuing. I don't outline. I just sit down and start to write, 1000 words a day usually. After 10,000 words or so, I'll go back and do an edit of everything I've done so far, just to make sure it's working, but then I won't do that again until I hit some sort of major landmark, if at all. I always write chronologically (i.e. I don't jump around in the story), and I keep going until it's done. Then I edit a lot. My first drafts are very, very, very, extremely bad.

After all that, eventually, there's a book. :)

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