"Do you always write the ending first?"

No, because the exact *shape* of the ending never come clear to me until
after I've written all the material preceding. I *know* where it's going,
I have a fairly clear vision whenever I write a script of where I want it
to end, but I don't actually write it first, no. Mark Twain said, "You
should never write a story until you have finished it to your
satisfaction." So yeah, you do have to know it.


jms

>That started me wondering -- just how much can you separate the
>characters from the plot? Maybe you have a character with the potential
>to be just fascinating, but if you don't give him anything interesting
>to do, how will your audience know?

People are fascinating by what they do or say, you can't have a character who's
fascinating but does nothing, so it's kind of a moot point.

But in general, plot proceeds from character...it's from defining who the
character is, what he wants, how far he's willing to go to get it, and how far
someone else will go to stop him. From that comes all the rest.

jms

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