I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.
Those of us who are writers and have to perform to communities that aren't used to coming to book events, I would recommend taking some theater.
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
I'm not the slowest writer that you know.
Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.
I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
