‘There’s a wayward part of me that resists plotting and wants to just plunge in. But if I yield to that temptation I risk the book being stillborn, so these days I tend to play safe.’
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‘I am a planner. But a kind of magic happens in the writing itself, whereby plots I’ve planned veer off in unexpected directions.’
‘I became mildly obsessed – okay, not so mildly – with a friend who described herself as an ‘arch-planner’. ‘
‘The first thirty percent of the story usually takes up about seventy percent of the time I will spend on the first draft in total. ‘