DB Graves’s Reviews > Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions > Status Update

iii: "What was I talking about? Oh, right; the creative process and the questions people ask me about it. How do I do world-building? Fucked if I know. I've come up with an answer that sounds plausible, but is it really true? How do I know when a story is done? When the shape, arc, and trajectory have all brought the story to its end. There, does that help?"

i: "...I'm perpetually astounded I can complete anything at all."

i:"Readers often ask me questions that presume I write with some overarching plan. That I know what my themes, metaphors, and outcomes will be. There are writers who do write that way. Whereas my brain frequently resists linearity. I cobble together a messy first draft with scenes frequently written out of order and no plan for them in mind. Then I figure out as much of that stuff as I can subsequent revisions..."