
Process, Preparation and Prose
If you are someone who writes by the seat of their pants, this essay is not for you. Stephen King, the grand Pooh-Bah of pantsing is holding court elsewhere and maybe he’ll let you buy him a beer and you can talk about us mere mortals who must prepare everything that we write in order to earn the name author. You know that the name author comes from the word authority, right? When you write, you are an authority over what you write. You become the god that sees everything and