I used to meet with my friends from other papers and we'd talk about awful editors. Francesca's paper is a composite of all the bad newspapers we knew. The column is eating into my novel-writing time. I'm frustrated because there's so much you can't say in a newspaper column. Editors fear you might offend readers.
Novels offer more freedom.
My goal is to be a full-time novelist. I hibernate when it's cold. I realized how much of my life I spent shut up inside the house, shivering. Now I go for long walks along the beach every morning, and think about killing people. It's very relaxing.