While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.

I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them.

In essence I'm really a very traditional writer. I subscribe to the notion that, ultimately, characters do drive everything else.

a dream is only a memory of the future

One of the reasons I'm not so keen on people calling me an "experimental" writer is that it suggests the work is about the experiment, when it's always the opposite - any "experimentation" is dictated by the material.

The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost in it and vested in it. So the emotional connection is everything, albeit a connection on my terms.

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."