Terry Pratchett's right up my alley ... give him a try!

I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.

Happy children do not seem to grow up to be writers.

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.

Information is power. --Humfrey