What does your creative environment look like?
I've got a large black writing desk from Ikea, the upper shelf of which is decked out like a miniature writing studio. It's ringed with a string of LEDs that I turn on when it's time to write. On the wall behind the desk I have a collection of postcards featuring famous authors. The desk is flanked with bookcases: the left bookcase has creative, inspirational materials, and the right bookcase has collections of work by a few of my favorite authors. I keep these for reference, whenever I have a question about writing.
What is your writing process?
If I'm inspired by an idea, I'll just sit down and knock it out as fast as I can. If I have no ideas but am in the mood to write, I'll pull out a couple random elements and characters, throw them together, and write about what happens. Sometimes that produces an interesting story. When I have a big idea, then I draw up an outline and pretty much enact the entire story that way, but it often happens that as I flesh out the story, more interesting things happen than I'd predicted and it goes off in another direction. At that point either I modify the outline or contrive to bend the story back on course. I hate rewriting, but my writing always benefits from a rewrite, when I can be bothered.
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