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Of Course, All Writers Draw Upon Their Personal Experiences In Describing Day-to-day Life And Human Relationships, But I Tend To Keep My Own Experiences Largely Separate From My Stories.

I Spend Eight Months Outlining And Researching The Novel Before I Begin To Write A Single Word Of The Prose.

I've Worked For Law Firms, I've Worked For Corporations, And For The Past 20 Years, I've Been Writing Working For Myself, And Believe Me It's A Lot Better. That's A Big Part Of The James Bond Panache, That You're Responsible, 100 Percent Responsible, For The Success Or Failure Of Your Mission In Life, Whatever It Is.

But One Does Not Make Living Writing Poetry Unless You're A Professor, And One Frankly Doesn't Get A Lot Of Girls As A Poet.

In The Shaded Portions Where The Two Spheres Of Different Lives Meet, Certain Fundamentals- Moods, Loves, Fears, Angers- Can't Be Hidden. That's The Contract.