do you know how you want the story to end when you start, or are you just stumbling through the figurative wilderness hoping to find a road?
Either! Both! Sometimes at the same time!
I usually have a vague idea of what I’m going for, but that doesn’t always survive first contact with the enemy story on the page. Sometimes I have a good idea of the arc I want, sometimes I have a scene I’m trying to reach, and sometimes I just want to play with characters and then I follow along transcribing whatever the heck it was they decided to do.
Sometimes I realize before I get to whatever scene I was working towards that it’s actually done, and sometimes I realize that that was actually just the middle.
I really really don’t know what I’m doing, half the time. Usually the road I find is a good one, but sometimes it takes a while.















