From my earliest attempts at writing I discovered that I was striving to get to a certain point in my story; what I mean is this: I’d start out to tell a story, but I’d know when that story really started. The story would start at that point when my character was broken. What does broken mean? Well, in a good story, I think, there comes a point where the character is rendered fluid, where, through a combination of events, he is lifted to a point of tension where the author can do anything with him, where everything fits.
