Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman.

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.

Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.