I have a favorite writing song. If you want to know what writing feels like for me, the days when the writing is good, listen to "The Gravel Road" by James Newton Howard. That's what it feels like. Exactly. It's from the film The Village, which isn't all that great....

I love building relationships in my stories. I love taking two people who don't like each other, two people who push each other's buttons, and having them find common ground, respect, and maybe even start to get along. Love that shit. I like writing the allies. I...

This was a rough week. Not emotionally. Nothing like that. I just mean...it wasn't smooth. It was rough in the sense that I was jumping back into my routine after not having been in that routine for a while, and it was all over the place. I had a good writing session...