The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people.
But I reserve the right to write the kinds of books I feel like writing.
Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.
I came away with the idea that I'd like to write books the way people write screenplays. I think I'm not going to let another line go through unexamined.
I write the books I want to write, and readers will either respond or not respond.
On top of that, I'm pretty sick of working on the books by the time they're published.