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Thank you.
Here's what William Faulkner had to say about his approach, which is similar to ours I think:
"It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does."
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Thank you.Here's what William Faulkner had to say about his approach, which is similar to ours I think:
"It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does."
In one of my series it resulted in me throwing away my outline and watching as the characters led me in a totally different direction.
For another (unreleased) book I wound up a quarter of the way through when I realized that the characters had simply refused to have sex. That's operator error: I hadn't set the rules of the house correctly.
I think it's a tribute to your skill in being able to make this technique work so incredibly well. My hat's off to you. (Once I figure out how to render an image of my avatar without the hat.)