I couldn't have been older than two or three. The story habit might have started with my grandfather. He'd make up stories to tell me. I always wanted more. So I started telling myself stories every night to go to sleep. Elaborate stories with action and dialog. I was annoyed when I couldn't remember them all, and even more annoyed when I'd scribble pages of squiggles no one else could decipher. I was thrilled when I went to school and learned to spell so I could write them all down.

I try to. I'd like to. But if Fallen angels want to tell me what's going to happen in chapter twelve, and they want to do it at 4 in the morning, it doesn't help to tell them my writing schedule doesn’t start until 9 a.m. (And nobody tells Lucifer what to do. He doesn't pay attention to writing rules, or any others from what I can tell.)

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I couldn't have been older than two or three. The story habit might have started with my grandfather. He'd make up stories to tell me. I always wanted more. So I started telling myself stories every night to go to sleep. Elaborate stories with action and dialog. I was annoyed when I couldn't remember them all, and even more annoyed when I'd scribble pages of squiggles no one else could decipher. I was thrilled when I went to school and learned to spell so I could write them all down.

Again, I try to. I want to. It's like taking a vacation. It's always nice to know where you're going before you start the car and head down the road. So I'll write down a billion notes and put them in some logical order. But they never survive the first chapter, sometimes not the first few pages. To paraphrase an old military quote: no battle plan survives first contract with the enemy. Or in my case, no chapter outline survives first contact with the characters in the book. I'll plan for them to do something and they won't. I'll plan dialog for them to say and they rewrite it. I'll plan for someone to do die, and they'll refuse. I'll spend 8 hours writing, and then realize I have to scrap the next chapter outline because they have trashed my plot and substituted their own. It's like life. It happens while you're busy making other plans.

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