Honey, no offense, but sometimes I think I could shoot you and watch you kick.
The fiction Im most interested in has lines of reference to the real world.
Remember Haydn's 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.
I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.
My life is going to change. I feel it.
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.