And I like writing for that sort of audience. I was just open to the experience books offered, probably more open than I am now as an adult. That might make me sound like a shut-in, but I wasn't. How they provided both comfort and escape. It would be impossible to make up everything.īecause I was a young adult when I fell in love with reading and I can remember how books made me feel back then. But there are always things in my books that come from my life or from the lives of the people around me. I'm not adopted, I've never told a lie that sent someone to jail, I've never built a house or had a brother go to war. And it's as honest an answer as I can give. But seriously, 700 words are a lot of words. And anyway, I've learned that 700 words are about all I'm good for on any given day, and if I write more than that I usually end up getting rid of most of it later. So I try not to look at FACEBOOK when I'm writing. I know this because writers like to tell you about how many words they've written on FACEBOOK. I know there are lots of writers out there who can write way more than that. I try to write 700 words a day - about three pages. Sometimes that means I have to get up really early. What's your writing day like? Do you stick to a routine? I went to law school, which I know doesn't count as a job, but hey, that was a lot of work. I also worked for FRONTLINE on PBS and Peter Jennings at ABC. I've waited tables, worked with adolescents in foster care, read the slush pile at a publishing house, and fact checked for a movie magazine. And I really like to walk near the Golden Gate Bridge. What are you doing when you aren't writing?
Except for the summers where I go back to Los Angeles in search of the sun. I'm from Los Angeles, but now I live in San Francisco.
But wouldn't that be easier than answering a whole bunch of FAQs?
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