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[Sound of ancient door opening]
Do I know the end of the book before I write it? Generally, yes
often times even though the last line I even knew the last line of Devil Colony before I wrote the first line
so that i know the beginning...I know the end...I know a few stopping points between
but I don't outline in great detail
that's a common questions we get asked...you outline books or do you just write
organically...and I have been to conferences where there has been outliners on one side
of the panel and and and uh...
organic writers on this side of the panel but by the time the panel is they
are usually in a fist fight
because they don't even know how to talk to each other
some of a little bit of both because i do have a bit of a structure but i don't
know that necessarily that A connects to B connects to C
to me the joy of writing is that discovery of where the story's going to take place
I like elbow room so that things can change if I need to
That's my chicken dance