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Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

All the sudden, I was part of the 'No Man's Land' thing, and there was a bundle of core writers for that, but somewhere along the line, I became the go-to guy after that initial arc.

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men.

I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact.

If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before.

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.