I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- Norman Mailer, (Jan 31 1923-2007), US novelist, journalist; He won a 1980 Pulitzer for The Executioner's Song and wrote The Naked and the Dead, 1948.