“Whatever the pursuit is just loving the work itself. Everything else that kind of comes with it can be a drag. There’s ups and downs. And also just try to find actionable things to move forward on. So just starting out and you just try it, then just spend...
“I wasn’t trying to be Buddy Holly or Elvis Presley or anything like that, but I felt that I needed to learn exactly what they were doing as at least a platform to start to have the dexterity to create within those things. And in those days we were all...
“I really do believe that people should engage in a writing workshop or a class or something like that because I do think having feedback about how people are responding, it doesn’t mean you have to use it or agree with what they say. But it’s very...
“Hardest part about writing is just keeping your butt in the chair. Discipline and persistence. I recommend people do it every day. And you just have to just keep at it. Can’t wait for inspiration to strike. You have to do it long enough until you kind of...
“When you’re trying to come up with a character, I look at it a little more technically. What’s the age? So she’s maybe a teenager. Okay, where’s she from? Okay, just to make it easy, put her in the south, maybe she’s a little bit...
