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[00:01.52]Lesson 39
[00:03.44]What every writer wants
[00:11.73]How do professional writers ignore what they were taught at school about writing?
[00:19.84]I have known very few writers,
[00:22.18]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.
[00:33.22]They have a character, perhaps two;
[00:35.91]they are in that condition of eager discomfort which passes for inspiration all admit radical changes of destination once the journey has begun;
[00:47.54]one, to my certain knowledge, spent nine months on a novel about Kashmir,
[00:53.21]then reset the whole thing in the Scottish Highlands.
[00:57.73]I never heard of anyone making a 'skeleton', as we were taught at school.
[01:03.33]In the breaking and remaking, in the timing interweaving, beginning afresh,
[01:10.07]the writer comes to discern things in his material which were not consciously in his mind when he began.
[01:17.55]This organic process,
[01:19.69]often leading to moments of extraordinary self-discovery, is of an indescribable fascination.
[01:28.29]A blurred image appears; he adds a brushstroke and another and it is gone
[01:35.34]but something was there, and he will not rest till he has captured it.