I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.
I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.
I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.
I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.
I begin with an image of some sort, just as if you saw something out of a window, and then went to the window to see what it was.