A little softer than what it turned out to be. It seemed to me if I was going to write about fatherhood, I had to write about my own experience. I had to approach it honestly. And it was pretty difficult at first. Suddenly here I am with a tape recorder trying to play investigator.
Writing is cheap psychotherapy.
I still feel it, I still feel the void, but you sort of come to grips with it. You come to terms with it. If they were surprised by anything, it was on the day I turned in the book. I had a deadline, and I turned it in on that day, and they just sort sat there for a moment. Like they didn't know what to do with it.