I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
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I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.
I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.
I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.
Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
I believe the most important thing you can do in any kind of novel is to make your reader want to go on with it and want to know what happens next.
I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.
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