Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different

by Chuck Palahniuk

As Ira Levin saw it, “Great problems, not clever solutions, make great fiction.” This means being able to tolerate the incomplete thing. Whether it’s the unfinished first draft or the events confronting the characters. In regard to the unfinished draft, Tom Spanbauer used to say, “The longer you can be with the unresolved thing, the more beautifully it will resolve itself.”