text:  I don't know. I just follow my intuitions when I'm working. So much of it is non-rational. It is just me kind of like tracking these characters and saying, well, let's see how far I can push this. It seems to me that the way you're describing writing is, and maybe this is just because the way I think about writing, having been a writer my whole life, is that, you know, this is how you write. You look for ideas. You find a whole lot. Most of them are terrible. You throw them away.