“I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.”

Meaning

This reads as a practical statement about writing from energy rather than from order. The point is that a story may be built from its most alive scene first, then shaped in both directions until the structure holds together. It lands for anyone trying to begin a large project, when the clearest entry is a vivid moment, not the opening page.

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Originally said in English.

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