How I Write...

 

I allow thoughts to find their own spaces before I gather them up and begin to weave and outline for my story. I ponder, scribble small paragraphs with details of where my characters are, how they feel and react, what they are wanting and what they eat. I flesh them out and I fill in as if my pen is a crayon in a colouring book. I write a few pages, try to take it easy, leave them overnight and notice how excited I am to return next morning to see what I have written. I edit and cross out, I begin again with the plot and characters, adding and subtracting. So much fun I lose sense of time. I will continue like this until I have the outline—and eventually I will follow this same pattern, and expand until I have written the novel.