Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you while writing...

[Massimo]

#OnWriting
Feel, see, question, understand, suffer, learn, change. Rewind.

I write to find out what happens and question my beliefs. I start small. One small word, and then another, and then a whole sentence, and then another, until the story lives on its own. Ever had your characters arguing with you about the plot? "No, no, it's not going to happen this way..."

"Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters theses," Stephen King said.
While S.K. said plotters is where the mediocre writers find refuge.

I'm a planter, and as Doctorow, I write like driving at night only able to look as far as my headlights. I know the start, I know more or less some mid-points and where I'd like the story to take me, my characters and the readers, but the writing process can be a surprise. I'm the first reader of my own stories.

What do you think, what are you? How does a story grows within you?