The Kind Of Event On A Conveyor

If You're Writing A Book That Takes Place In New York In The Moment, You Can't Not Write About 9-11; You Can't Not Integrate It. My Main Character's View Is The Statue Of Liberty And The Trade Center. It Doesn't Have To Take Over, But It Has To Be Acknowledged.

I Can Never Read This Book, Just Like I Can Never See A Movie That I Wrote A Screenplay For. I Can Read It And See It Physically, But I Can't Accurately Judge It. I'm Too Close To It. If I Read It Ten Times I'll Have Ten Different Reactions.

I Do Small Cameos Here And There But Nothing That Requires More Than A Paragraph Of Talking, Because I'm Just An Amateur. The Movie Is A Whole Different Reality.

I Have Offices All Over The Place And I Avoid Work Everywhere. I Don't Like To Write - I Like To Be Finished.

In A Given Scene I May Know Nothing More Than How It's Supposed To End, Most Of The Time Not Even That. Scenes Are Improvised. A Character Does Or Says Something, And With As Much Spontaneity And Schizophrenia As I Can Muster, Another Character Responds. In This Way, Everything I Write Is Spontaneous Chain Reaction And I'm Running Around Playing Leapfrog In My Brain Trying To "be" All My People.