My short story, The Horse Farm, is improvised. There's no outline. I make up each chapter as I go along. Most of the time, I have a general sense of where the story is heading, but sometimes the narrative forces me to change direction and follow an unexpected path. The driving force is believability, i.e. would the characters really do these things in their current situation?
The process is exciting, because I encounter surprises along the way. I get to know more about my characters over time, just as the reader does. Last evening, I worked on a chapter, and I realized that I needed to revise my expectations. What I thought would happen didn't make sense at that time. It would have been unrealistic.
Where is it all going? Well, I guess we'll have to see. I don't think that the story would have been very interesting if I had conceptualized every detail in advance. Writing it would have been dull. I prefer discovering the course of the story chapter by chapter. I hope that you'll enjoy it as well.
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