You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies
Richard PriceI don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.
Richard PriceIf I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.
Richard PriceIn a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that. Scenes are improvised. A character does or says something, and with as much spontaneity and schizophrenia as I can muster, another character responds. In this way, everything I write is spontaneous chain reaction and I'm running around playing leapfrog in my brain trying to "be" all my people.
Richard Price