The other night I was commenting with some authors about writing process. I know some people, writers or not, find this interesting, so I thought I'd share mine. I'm usually given the first scene whole cloth. In a dream or when I'm doing something mindless (like making lunch for my little boys). Charlotte in her prison cell or Jack and Faye at breakfast, it comes in full technicolor detail. The sounds, the dialogue, the tension, everything is complete. Then it's up to me