Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I do love that discovery of when you're trying to figure out how to make something work, and it happens in a way that you didn't predict.

Often they do go back and forth the whole way, and I don't know until the very end what the last line of the book is going to be. That was true here - the very last line of the book was the last thing that happened.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

I'm structured with time.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

I had a general outline of subjects. The way I start my days is my husband brings me a thermos of coffee up to the bedroom.