This, from Doug Dorst, sounds familiar:
“My [writing] warm-up technique appears to be to waste several hours on the web, waste several more telling myself I’m a fraud, and finally, if I’m lucky, telling myself, oh, hell, just type some words already.”
You can read the rest of the interview over at The Rumpus.
I got a chance to know Doug a bit while we were both living in San Francisco. He’s a very nice guy. He was once a Jeopardy champion. He also has great taste in music. (We kept bumping into each other at shows.)
Doug has a new collection of stories out, called The Surf Guru, which was enthusiastically reviewed by Robin Romm in The New York Times.
And since I’m in a linking kind of mood: check out the collection’s title story. Highly, highly recommended.