"What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.”
-- Burton Rascoe
I spend a lot of time thinking. I jot down ideas. I talk into my cell phone and leave myself messages. My ideas come from the strangest places and I have to record them someway, somehow or they go back where they came from.
I'm always working. I'm always writing even when I'm not. Everyone is a character and every place is a scene. Every chat is potential dialogue. Not to make everyone in my life paranoid, but my best ideas come from the worst things you say or do.
I also read a lot. And with every word my eyes transfer to my brain, I'm thinking about the story and the writing.
What do you do when you're "not working" that is really an essential part of your writing process?
1 comments:
I've always thought I needed to be more like you Amy! I don't remember scenes and dialogue very well. The good thing, I guess, is that when I am away from my desk, I'm usually really away -- mentally as well as physically. The bad thing is that one day you will be famous and I will still be a soccer mom who was going to get serious about writing one day...
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