You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on t….

What I need to write is a complicated equation. Maybe if I knew I'd be one of those writers, one of the steady ones. I rest upon my assertion that th….

Energy seems to be the more critical of those two variables, because if I'm really feeling the push/pull to write, then I'll make the time..

I read a lot; I tried to understand the mechanisms that made the books I liked successful, and I went that route. So, as for readers - when I think a….

Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "no….

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my ….

It all depends on what I'm working on and if there is a deadline involved. Anything that's headed toward a magazine or newspaper is hacked out on the….

In some sense that was a blessing, because it forced me to focus on prose. I feel my narrative voice in prose is more authentically me because I deve….

At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people would be delighted to….

Of course, I don't mean to imply that all writers are working in the deep waters that border on the divine. Most writers are just trying to pay the b….

I've always been a fan of comedy, and I understood from a young age that what makes most comedy work is the immediacy of first person experience. I'd….

Most writers are lazy intellectuals, and it's a goddamn shame because a writer with an audience has a moral responsibility to make readers think abou….

I suppose most writers are following Twain's advice to tackle what they know, and my own readings habits drew me to writers who seemed to be writing ….

I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll spend three straight weeks writ….

Not every story lends itself tonally to humor, so you have to navigate that territory properly. You can put a humorous spin on anything, really, if y….

Curiously, the balance seems to come when writing is woven into every aspect of my life, like eating or exercising - one flows constantly into the ne….

In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Br….

I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tent….

If you're trying to convey a crucial emotional truth, you have to be in total control of the emotional pacing of the story, and if you can only strik….

I view my stories as sexual or personal. Curiously, I don't. When I was writing those stories I thought of them as comedy pieces in the vein of perfo….

That being said, if you slept with me and are filled with shame at the possibility of the world knowing, then you should have considered that before ….