On Writing

Yesterday I watched an interview with Lewis Black in which he described the process of writing a book as being like Sunday evening when you're a kid, watching the sun set slowly and all the other kids are outside playing and you're inside because you have to do your homework. Except that it's like that every day. I would say that's about right. But I would add that the alternative is worse. When you're in the middle of a writing project you've always got it hanging over your head, but when you're in between projects you've got a big black emptiness hanging over your head, just waiting for the Sunday evening feeling to come back.