text:  I would divert myself. I would go down all these different strange roads and paths to pursue these other different stories. And that's what always happens with my books. I go out with an intention. There's a general outline in my head. But then the characters, at some point, they really do take over. They take me down these strange pathways into their adventures and their storylines. And that's, for me, part of the fun of it, discovering these worlds and these storylines as I write them.