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So you had it in your head as a manual, and the finished product is not quite that.
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They gave me eight months to write it.
I remember once reading an interview with Pamela Anderson and shed written these books.
They asked, How did you do it?
She said, Each day, Id sharpen my pencil and sit at my desk and just write!
So it cant be that hard.
There was a lot more interesting stuff to do in adding my personal story and take to it.
I just found some stuff as I was writing.
The more I put myself in a paranoid mindset, where did that leave me?
The pressure of having to do 60,000 words really was a creativity aid.
Your first chapter is titled What the f is happening to me?
and takes readers through what feels like the stages of acceptance.Yeah.
And then its like, at the end I didnt want to do anything genuinely emotional.
I was like, This is a comedy book and its going to seem odd.
And maybe it does seem odd no ones really read it [yet].
But I felt like I really wanted to talk about that, because itwastraumatic.
It was all very real to me.
It is really depressing.
It becomes almost a conspiracy theory about yourself that you have.
Were you concerned about getting too bleak?
The humor ranges toward the very dark.Im hoping I didnt.
I hope I landed the plane where I wanted to.
I think you do.
It was way too bleak.
Its the best thing for you.
Which I dont know about.
Another chapter in the book is titled I lost my hair on 9/11.
Then I got it cut.
I believe Id gotten it cut the day before; it was a day or two before.
Then I was like, Something feels different.
I woke up and I became aware that so much hair was gone.
I was sort of dazed.
And then I walked into a bigger assault on the senses that dwarfed mine.
[Laughs] It is what it is.
I guess that was helpful.
At one point I wanted to be a novelist, and I had all these notes for a novel.
Books were real to me.
Part of it was like running a marathon and seeing, Could I actually write a book?
I have a Library of Congress number, and no one can take that away.
Joyce Carol Oates, Hemingway, me were all in the same store.
They dont have it that much better than I do, in spite of their elevated skill.
Were all just things on a shelf.
That feels very rewarding.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
