You soon lose the sense, in writing fiction, that you yourself are making things happen.

Larry McMurtry; Literary Life: A Second Memoir

[I know exactly what he means, this happens to me every time I write. The characters take over, they end up telling me what to write. It’s a strange phenomenon.]

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