Verlyn Klinkenborg

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn__ learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God__ injunction and Adam__ loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. __urry,_ they say, __e__l expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.