No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.
I have the "thing" worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
Hit them fast, hit them hard, and hit them a lot.
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.
I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.