Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.

I actually was doing ghostwriting jobs since I was 17 years old, so I've been supporting myself off and on with writing jobs for almost 10 years. But those were all things that I did off the books. And now I do a lot more writing on the books.

Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.

I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.