The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.
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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.
The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
I like that it's challenging - that when I'm writing, I feel as if I'm pouring everything I have into the story until there's nothing left and I have to begin thinking about a new world and set of circumstances to research and explore.
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.
Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.
I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.
When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.
For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.
I hate being bored when I read a story. Even a well-trod theme can be made fresh by a different perspective or fresh writing.
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.
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