I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany or [...] physiology. [...] I am very curious about strangers I observe - as in a bus line. I am very attached to finding out answers.

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.

I don’t like to hurt people’s feelings, and I don’t like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

I'm used to rereading e-mails, even, before sending them - a bit compulsive. So this is high speed roller coaster for me!

We all have an ongoing narrative inside our heads, the narrative that is spoken aloud if a friend asks a question. That narrative feels deeply natural to me. We also hang on to scraps of dialogue. Our memories don’t usually serve us up whole scenes complete with dialogue. So I suppose I’m saying that I like to work from what a character is likely to remember, from a more interior place.