I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
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I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.
Well, I outline fanatically. I am a long thinker and a slow writer, though I am trying to get faster.
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.