I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You don't have to resolve every problem of the book at the end, but you do have to resolve some.
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 what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin to think of what I'd like to do next, then I'll know that what I'm writing is in hand. I'll think of an ending and it will be fine.
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.
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.
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 never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as soon as I'm done with this book, I'll move on to something else.
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one.