INTERVIEWER
I gather from what you said earlier that you don’t find the act of writing difficult.
WAUGH
I don’t find it easy. You see, there are always words going round in my head: Some people think in pictures, some in ideas. I think entirely in words. By the time I come to stick my pen in my inkpot these words have reached a stage of order which is fairly presentable.
I feel like that happens to me a lot. Not all of the time or anything, but sometimes, I’ll sit down to write and I already have an entire scene written in my head. Well, I usually have to tweak a bit and make minor changes and fill in a gap here or there. But it just splats on the page and is about 95% done.
Splats?! Now, Mr. Keys…
That came out cruder than I meant it!
Wouldn’t that be nice~ I have a jumble of words swirling around in no particular order.
I have a jumble of pictures, and bits of old music, and somehow if I sit down in quiet place with no distractions sometimes I can get the words down. But the older I get, the less quiet I have 😉 .
This makes me like Waugh all the more. What a writer!