My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
I'm a fairly undisciplined writer.
I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
If I get in the studio, it's very organic. I like to go off how I feel.
I just write what comes along. I don't have a detailed master plan.
There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.
I start writing with an open mind without thinking about genre and realise, only after writing, that it falls under many genres.
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.
My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.
I realized I had a novel on my hands, but didn't know where it was going to go. So I thought, 'I'm going to do everything that you're not supposed to do when you plan a novel; I'm going to step back and let this thing take itself wherever it wants to go, and I'm not going to worry about how things connect until later on.'
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
I am not a person of schedule when it comes to writing.
I just love to sit and go, 'Let's just write a song and not worry about how it needs to be'.
Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.
