Also I should point out that I was a visual artist and I am very comfortable with collage. Well, that's a tough one. Maybe it's that we're taking all this for granted. I'm too deep in a value system that says that books are it. My house tells you that story too.
Writing is like wanting to have sex.
I hold it in my head and the tension that is created by constructing this virtual novel in my head, and by the inability to flesh it out in detail. Because I am holding the entirety fuels the need to get it on the page. I often have a scene or image in mind that is a resolution. I used to have some problems with plot early on, but not any more. What happens to them is the plot.