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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

Alan Lightman
Book, Character, Plot
Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.