When I begin writing, I have no idea what my novels are ultimately going to be about. I don't have a plot. I never consider a theme. I don't make notes or outlines.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've never written a book with an outline or a predetermined theme. It's only in retrospect that themes or subjects become identifiable. That's the fun of it: discovering what's next. I'm often surprised by plot developments I would not have dreamed of starting out, but that, in the course of the writing, come to seem inevitable.
The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.
When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.
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 always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
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.
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 start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls. I don't ever think about what kind of fiction I write or what I am writing about or what I am trying to write about. When I'm writing, what I do is I think about a story that I want to tell.