"No plotting in my fiction doesn’t mean that nothing happens. It means I don’t plan what I’m going to..."

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No plotting in my fiction doesn’t mean that nothing happens. It means I don’t plan what I’m going to withhold.

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How to do without plot without panic? Having a goal is different from a plot. Having a train station where you’ve decided your last scene must take place, or knowing the heroine must overdose is not plot. On cloudless days, Native Americans used to find their way through high grass by shooting an arrow toward the sun and heading toward where it dropped. That’s how I’d like to think I progress—without losing too many arrows.

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- Terese Svoboda (via mttbll)