Bill,
I write solely on the computer, but I print out frequently,
and go over the new pages by hand. The exception is poetry,
which I still write out by hand on legal pads.
I work off and on all day, but the best, most creative work
gets done in the morning, so I keep that open for the latest
book. Afternoons, I'll do revisions, write reviews or
columns, attend to my email, read student work and prepare
for classes. Around four I knock off and start getting dinner
ready. Karyn gets home at six, and we spend the evening
watching TV or reading. Obviously we are exciting
people.
I don't consciously avoid reading crime novels while working
on one, but I often find that my reading habits change when
working intensely at a book
-- I liken it to specific hunger, the sort of thing that has
pregnant impoverished women eating plaster off the walls: my
body (mind) is calling out for something.
I walk a lot, and whenever I get seriously stuck -- which is
often, since I'm mostly improvising as I go -- I'm out of
here.
These days, with columns for The Magazine of Fantasy &
Science Fiction, literary website Web Del Sol, and the Boston
Globe, plus one or two books in process, there's always
plenty of work to do.
Jim
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