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[00:00.87]Lesson 39
[00:03.71]What every writer wants
[00:12.95]How do professional writers ignore what they were taught at school about writing?
[00:21.57]I have known very few writers,
[00:24.56]but those I have known and whom I respect, confess at once that they have little idea where they are going when they first set pen to paper.
[00:36.13]They have a character, perhaps two;
[00:39.10]they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun;
[00:50.66]one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir,
[00:57.61]then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands.
[01:01.38]I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at school.
[01:07.35]In the breaking and remaking, in the timing interweaving, beginning afresh,
[01:14.80]the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began.
[01:22.83]This organic process, often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination.
[01:34.32]A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another and it is gone
[01:41.06]but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it.
[01:46.68]Sometimes the yeast within a writer outlives a book he has written.