The chain of thoughts which produces a novel rarely interests anyone but aspiring novelists. They tend to believe that there is a " secret formula" to writing a commercially successful novel, but there isn't. You get an idea; at some point another idea kicks in; you make a connection or a series of them between ideas; a few characters( usually little more than shadows at first) suggest themselves; a possible ending occurs to the writers mind (although when the ending comes, it's rarely much like the writer envisioned); and at some point, the novelist sits down with a paper and pen, a typewriter, or a word cruncher. When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.

                                                                                               ~Stephen King