Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels.
Piers AnthonyAs for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them.
Piers AnthonyI don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
Piers Anthony