In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.
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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 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.
I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.
If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.
Even if you plan your book, the actual writing is unplanned.
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.
Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder.
Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.
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