"What I advocate instead -- I'm a believer in theme (knowing the essence of a story) -- is a strong understanding of the characters, point-of-view, tone and feel of a piece, a certain signalling and directing opening, a powerful but maybe not articulated sense of the ending, (or at least the type of ending), and just a few incidents (plot islands) along the way."
"Theme and character-driven writers don't decide for their characters. They try not to interfere. They invest in the psyche of the character and their "plotting" is merely to occasionally invent obstacles, and present these obstacles to the character deliberately with no solution offered. Then, thinking as if they themselves are the characters, they try to work out a solution (the metaphor would be, they let the character solve the problem.)"
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