I've written about Andaleeb Wajid before. Yesterday, I had a chance to interact with her on Blogchatter again. Her talk was about The Writing Process. I tuned in and she spoke about how she wasn't a very methodical writer during her first couple of novels, but now after 13 novels, it has all changed. Initially she had an idea about how her book would end and then worked backward. She used to let her characters 'control' the manuscript. She said she couldn't let all her characters 'surprise' her all the time. She said she couldn't 'wing it' all the time. Now she makes a lot of notes about her characters and their motivations. She plans her books. She gives herself the freedom to change the story from her synopsis although the synopsis becomes the blueprint. She says she doesn't believe in writer's block and that she'd rather say she is stuck. If you are unable to write a particular chapter, you should just let it be and come...
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