“I think it’s dangerous to think you know what you’re writing. I usually don’t know, and usually I just discover it in the course of writing. I envy those writers who can outline a beginning, a middle, and end. Fitzgerald supposedly did it. John Irving does. Bret Easton Ellis does. But for me, the writing itself is the process of discovery. I can’t see all that far ahead.”
~ Jay McInerney
A Pondering Mind 
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I write the same way.
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Do you find it adventurous writing that way?
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I greatly enjoy the process of discovery. If I knew in advance what happens in the story and how it ends, there would be no point in writing it.
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That makes sense. Do you have a special time of the day to do your writing, or do you just wing it?
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I prefer to write in the morning before the day intervenes with “stuff,” but I can write at other times, if need be.
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It seems that a lot of people like to do their writing in the morning…
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I’m not surprised.
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Being awake and more alert, could be the reason.
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Yes. The mind can can get very cluttered by the end of the day.
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This is true…
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I can’t see that far ahead either. What I right just evolves as I write it. I have no idea where I will end up until I get there.
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Everybody has their ways of writing.
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I would be one needing the outline or I’d get lost. I read one novel by him, Story of My Life. Good, dry humor.
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I’ve read several of his books, and liked all of them…
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Me too. I never know until I’m writing it.
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There is a lot of people out there that do the same thing…
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