Writing always feels like creating in a secret hole, to me
Even when I do it publicly
It requires a secreting within—a holding myself away from everything that has ideas other than my own
It is an explosively creative place—like growing plants, or fusion—proceeding one step at a time
methodically
intuitively
insisting on the move (as David Mamet says) insisting on the word, the statement, the story—proceeding unstoppably
Writing (and the attached thinking) is the most personal—the place with the most possibility for truth—the most fertile—the most powerful place I know to go
Picking out my music this morning for (MONSTER) I know I'm going back to this place and I am excited