When you were writing TQR, how did you plan the story to become the intricately developed plot it ended up as? I’ve always wondered how authors have developed stories to be so well-detailed. Would you say you discovered these plot intricacies as you wrote,

I’m an exploratory writer, so I love to discover things as I write. When I first sit down to begin drafting a book, I always know two things: where I’m starting and where I’m ending. The rest I discover as I go. Which can be exciting but also frustrating, if I let my plot take a strange turn. 

I find that revising is the perfect time to really hone details (what needs to stay and what needs to be cut) and to weave all the threads together in the narrative. For TQR, I had a few of the plot intricacies figured out before hand. But most of them bloomed as I drafted and fully came together as I revised.