When you're plotting/writing, do you work through the main characters' plot lines first and then work in the side characters and their stories afterwards (or, more or less towards the end of your process, as the case may be, since writing can be such a cyclical process), fitting side story pieces in here and there as necessary? Or, do you plot/write it all out together?

J.R. Ward OMG I know this is going to sound lame, but I honestly don't work on anything. I just watch the movies in my head and put them together in a way that makes sense? I extensively outline, but that's recording what I've been shown and trying to get it an order that flows and is chronologically sound? But I don't have a process in the sense that I dictate anything. The stories are to be found or discovered intact as they are revealed. They are not driven by me. If I do try and have an opinion, or force them to do something or go somewhere they don't want? Everything shuts up. Learned that back with Lover Revealed- it was the only time I've ever had writer's block.

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