Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I’ve got...ways of tricking my brain into getting what I need out of it

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

A lot of the creature comforts and the things we take for granted, are not sustainable, especially at current population levels. And so, it's not just simply a matter of changing over to solar. It's a matter of changing our philosophies. Of learning to live, more or less, mid- or post-apocalyptic, whatever apocalyptic means.

Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writing’s quality and your productivity.