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Harriet Kline, author of 'This Shining Life' - Using work as inspiration, the monster that gets her started and the meaning of life

Writer's Routine

CHAPTER

Is There a Plan?

If i were to come into your writing room and plunk myself down on your slightly rickety pub table, would i have any clue as to what story you were telling? Is there a plan anywhere, posted notes, perhaps on the walls, a big, a spread sheet somewhere? A, you might, there might sometimes be a big rolled up piece of newspaper, not newspaper, wall paper. But i think if there's too much reference to what i'm doing around me, er, then i just, it makes me do the same thing again and again. I quite like to kind of refer to it, but give myself the freedom not to keep sticking to whatever i've decided

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