Doyou: Most novelists write that way, or do you think theyve fully outline it out? If a writer is sort of, the characters are coming from him in some creative way, i think i can tell. There's an old stephen king sort of observation that when you're writing really well, you are sort of excavating a relic, or an object that's been buried. And so by going with the impulse like elmore leonard, then you are following that sort of unaware portion of you that you're trying to discover.

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