{"text":"I have an idea and a first line -- and that suggests the rest of it. I have little concept of what I’m going to say, or where it’s going. I have some idea of how long it’s going to be -- but not what will happen or what the themes will be. That’s the intrigue of doing it -- it’s a process of discovery. You get to discover what you’re going to say and what it’s going to mean.","author":"T.C. Boyle","tags":["beginnings","starting-a-book","writing","writing-advice","writing-fiction"],"id":130571,"author_id":"T.C.+Boyle"}