One of my favorite writers, Lee Child, said that in his Jack Reacher novels he has no idea what his characters will do, where they'll wander, where they'll end up.
For the start of one of his books, he wrote this sentence: "Moving a guy as big as Keever wasn't easy."
Andy Martin, who was observing Child's writing process at the time said this about the author, "When he sat down to write the first sentence, all he had in his head was a scene, a glimpse of a scene: a bunch of guys are burying someone, a big guy, using a backhoe (or JCB). He had no idea who they are, why they are doing this, or who the big guy is either, other than that his name is Keever."
Recently, I read an interview where Mr. Child said, "For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader."
Of course when you have the talent that Mr. Child possesses, you can write any gosh darn way you want.
Damn it.
Paige.