Q: Charles Willeford said he wrote for a couple of hours and then puttered around for the rest of the day.
A: Yes. The puttering around is a part of the writing.
You read, you watch videos, you think.
You drive places.
Q: You babysit, or work for wages.
A: I have been a babysitter. I have worked for wages.
A career takes 40 years.
I have it made, but I earned it.
I built it.
All the sweat-equity I put in is paying off.
A novelist travels, but a poet doesn’t have to leave the house.
Q: An immobilized hero novel is a book of poems.
A: A book of poems is an immobilized hero novel.
What’s a book?
A book’s-length worth of daily typewriting.
Related to the book before it and the book after it.
40-Year Run is a book. The great long continuous book of my life, after Thoreau.
Thoreau walked. In nature.
He thought, on his walks.
Q: Strolled and pondered.
A: A writer strolls and ponders.