For me, the writing process is literally a manual labor, as all my books are written by hand two or three times and then typed on a computer. It's a question of musicality, rhythm and, yes, a necessary slowness, as thought and the movement of the hand across the paper go hand in hand. Action, characterization and mood change a lot along the way as the process progresses.
In many ways, this method makes my writing workshop mobile, and I have sat in many places both at home and abroad in libraries, parks, on a bench or in a café with a notebook and a fountain pen. The first version of "BERNINI'S EYE" was a short story written far from both my home country and Bernini's Rome, on the island of Phu Quoc in Vietnam.
