He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie.
Plot comes first. The plot is the archictecture of your novel. You wouldn't build a house without a plan. If I wrote without a plot, it would just be a pile of bricks. Characters are your servants. They must serve your plot.
Il ne faut point donner d'esprit a' ses personnages; mais savoir les placer dans des circonstances qui leur en donnent. You should not give wit to your characters, but know instead how to put them in situations which will make them witty.
In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.
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.
In addition to the wishes of the client, the position, orientation, and size of the plot also play an important role in determining the final plan of the house. The 'where' and 'how' of the exterior then follows naturally from all of that.
I'm a big believer that the structure of stories should reflect the content of the story.
I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.
Few real people appear in my two novels, actually. "Ari" appears on the edge of this book a couple of times - but on the edge, she's never in it, even if she's a determining force from the outside. Everybody in the first book was basically made up, if never from scratch.
Axiom : Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
