Dave Eggers

But I'm taking notes on many things every day.

Like I'll see a bird, I'll be like, I was writing a picture book about a bird like that, I just had an idea, that'll go in the book.

And then once you're getting to the very end, the last six months or so, then it's pretty much just the one.

Knowing if it'll make any sense at all.

Maybe the first six, five, six books, you have no idea that it'll cohere.

There's no lesson.

There's no structure that you can count on.

It's not like a...

verse, verse, chorus, verse, you know, there's no, it's, every novel is wildly different from every other one.

And especially when nonfiction, it's really unpredictable whether you have something or not, or you can make some, something compelling out of something that happens, some moment in time.

But now, having been through 12 novels or whatever I'm at, you get to a point of,

It's not very mastery, but you're closer to knowing the path, you know, before you start.

But then again, to make a really interesting book, you're starting over, you're doing something drastically new.

I have to be interested in the form of something new, something that I haven't done before.

So I'm working on something now that has a really different structure than something and anything I've done before.

And it could be terrible.

But I know better that I could finish it no matter what.

I don't know if it'll be any good, but at a certain point, you know how to finish almost anything, let's say.

The raw material is all there, most of it.

But you've ideally fixed every sentence, you know?