Yes, the best novelists make it seem like everything is coherent and constructed intricately beforehand, but you would be sorely deluded if you think writers en

Yes, the best novelists make it seem like everything is coherent and constructed intricately beforehand, but you would be sorely deluded if you think writers engineer the plot, and connect the pieces in an integrated fashion before writing process. It just doesn't work like that. The novel that appears to have the plot thought all the way through, presenting an integrated and unified story-world is a refined work that went through hundreds of revisions and constant rewriting to make it the whole that it appears to be.