Do the things you sketch out in advance generally come out as you plan them? You’ve mentioned that you are a person who outlines and plots and prepares very extensively. Do the things you see in that first flash of inspiration come out, or is it a rare and beautiful thing when it happens?
No, I would say it comes out usually in a somewhat unexpected way. There’s usually something about it that wasn’t originally planned. This is the nature of writing. You have to be open and free to do what you’re not expecting to do. Otherwise your writing’s going to be wooden and lifeless. You have to be willing to explore ideas as they come to you in the writing process.
That said, I am an outliner. My initial sketches, my outlines, calling them outlines is really a glorified version of a bunch of notes about how a scene is going to feel and what goals I want to achieve in it, but it is an outline. Often, it’s very similar but with some distinctive and major differences.
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