Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, it's a natural part in the evolution of the work.

